On Sat, 2024-04-27 21:23:37 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbg...@lug-owl.de> wrote:
> I'm trying to generate a reproducible archive of a directory
> contianing a number of files using tar 1.34; there are just
[...]
> It boils down to a call like this:
>
> tar --sort=name
> \
> --mtime="@${SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH:-$(date +%s)}"
> \
> --owner=0
> \
> --group=0
> \
> --numeric-owner
> \
> --format=pax
> \
>
> --pax-option=exthdr.name=%d/PaxHeaders/%f,delete=atime,delete=ctime,delete=devmajor,delete=devminor
> \
> -cf - "${basename_dir}"
> | \
> gzip -n9 > "${artifacts_dir}/${tarball_filename}"Turns out: Running an update to 1.35 (actually to Debian's 1.35+dfsg-3) seems to allow creating reproducible tarballs using the above command. Thanks, Jan-Benedict --
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