[Bug-tar] Getting cross-platform deterministic output with long filenames and --numeric-owner

2017-04-05 Thread Daniel Peebles
Hi all, I'm trying to create deterministic tarballs across different systems (Linux and macOS primarily) using GNU tar 1.29. It looks like many people do this successfully with a few options like --owner=0, --group=0, and --numeric-owner (among others like --mtime that aren't relevant to this emai

Re: [Bug-tar] Getting cross-platform deterministic output with long filenames and --numeric-owner

2017-04-06 Thread Daniel Peebles
Paul: great, thanks for the quick fix! William: good to know that triton is always 5 steps ahead of me :) On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 9:20 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 04/05/2017 11:58 AM, Daniel Peebles wrote: > >> the write_gnu_long_link function doesn't seem to pay an

Re: [Bug-tar] Getting cross-platform deterministic output with long filenames and --numeric-owner

2017-12-13 Thread Daniel Peebles
Is there any chance of getting an official release with the bugfix included? It's proving pretty hard to make deterministic tarballs without it. On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 9:42 PM, Daniel Peebles wrote: > Paul: great, thanks for the quick fix! > > William: good to know that triton is

Re: [Bug-tar] Getting cross-platform deterministic output with long filenames and --numeric-owner

2017-12-14 Thread Daniel Peebles
Thank you so much! That'll be a great help. -Dan On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > > Is there any chance of getting an official release with the bugfix > > included? > > Yes, of course. I'll release the new version this weekend. > > Regards, > Sergey >