bug#21111: possibly bogus in binary tarball

2015-07-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Dave Love skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Interestingly, I do not get this message, both with ‘tar xf’ and >> ‘tar xvf’ with GNU tar 1.28. >> >> I tried with different timezones, and I can’t trigger it. >> >> Dave: What version of GNU tar do you use, and in what timezone? >> >> TIA, >> L

bug#21111: possibly bogus in binary tarball

2015-07-22 Thread Dave Love
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Interestingly, I do not get this message, both with ‘tar xf’ and > ‘tar xvf’ with GNU tar 1.28. > > I tried with different timezones, and I can’t trigger it. > > Dave: What version of GNU tar do you use, and in what timezone? > > TIA, > Ludo’. It was on RHEL6 in the UK

bug#21111: possibly bogus in binary tarball

2015-07-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:55:13PM +0100, Dave Love wrote: >> The timestamps in the guix-binary-0.8.3.x86_64-linux.tar.xz tarball are >> all at the epoch, so unpacking it spews messages like >> >> tar: ./var/guix: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00 >> >> I

bug#21111: possibly bogus in binary tarball

2015-07-22 Thread Andreas Enge
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:55:13PM +0100, Dave Love wrote: > The timestamps in the guix-binary-0.8.3.x86_64-linux.tar.xz tarball are > all at the epoch, so unpacking it spews messages like > > tar: ./var/guix: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00 > > I guess that's not intentional, bu

bug#21111: possibly bogus in binary tarball

2015-07-22 Thread Dave Love
The timestamps in the guix-binary-0.8.3.x86_64-linux.tar.xz tarball are all at the epoch, so unpacking it spews messages like tar: ./var/guix: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00 I guess that's not intentional, but if it is, it's probably worth a note in the installation instructions