Hi Bruno, On 3/17/24 2:03 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: > The European GDPR asks for minimizing the collection of data that is > necessary for the job. mtime is necessary for transporting a package > to a different machine. Even atime is not. But ctime and creationtime > are not either, even less.
I see, thanks for mentioning that. I should really get around to reading the GDPR... For what it's worth, I don't see much benefit to saving the creation time. But like you said, some may have a different preference. > * On Linux, it's not even possible to set the birthtime of a file, if > that is meant to mean the ctime (change time). Yes, I beleive it is a BSD thing that MacOS also supports (don't quote me on that). Maybe there would be a way to make the warnings less noisy by default? $ tar -xf eclipse-inst-jre-linux64.tar.gz 2>&1 | wc -l 869 You can silence it like this, but at that point you have already extracted the archive. :) $ tar --warning=no-unknown-keyword -xf eclipse-inst-jre-linux64.tar.gz It seems that 'bsdtar' will create archives with this by default unless invoked with '--no-xattrs', but I don't have any way of double checking at the moment. Collin
