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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: [Bug-tar] --xattrs makes archives unreproducible |
| Date: | Fri, 15 May 2015 08:18:38 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 |
Zachary Vance wrote:
--xattrs embeds the pid in tar files. I think this is a bad default, and the default format string should deviate from how PAX is standardized to instead not include the PID. That way, if you run tar twice, you will get the same output both times.
This sounds like a good idea to me too.
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