From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>,
Tzvetelin Katchov <katchov@gnu.org>,
Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>,
Nick Clifton via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Sort tarballs created by the src-release.sh script
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 12:38:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <07a1ca21-5569-e67b-d0c7-6069974b1068@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <032e0c1e-17b5-5e24-e179-d5c2ba432dc5@suse.com>
Hi Guys,
Right, here is the latest and greatest - and hopefully last - version
of the patch. I added a parseable string to the --mtime option and a
comment explaining why these options are being used.
Any more comments/suggestions ?
Cheers
Nick
diff --git a/src-release.sh b/src-release.sh
index 079b545ae7c..8a2ac125030 100755
--- a/src-release.sh
+++ b/src-release.sh
@@ -184,9 +184,11 @@ do_tar()
ver=$2
echo "==> Making $package-$ver.tar"
rm -f $package-$ver.tar
+ # The sort command and --mtime, --group and --owner options are
+ # used in order to create consistent, reproducible tarballs.
find $package-$ver -follow \( $CVS_NAMES \) -prune \
- -o -type f -print \
- | tar cTfh - $package-$ver.tar
+ -o -type f -print | LC_ALL=C sort \
+ | tar cTfh - $package-$ver.tar --mtime="1970-01-01 00:00:00" --group=0 --owner=0
}
# Compress the output with bzip2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-30 11:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-28 12:59 Nick Clifton
2022-09-28 13:05 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-09-28 13:34 ` Nick Clifton
2022-09-29 12:24 ` Nick Clifton
2022-09-29 12:36 ` Jan Beulich
2022-09-30 11:38 ` Nick Clifton [this message]
2022-10-02 7:54 ` Sam James
2022-10-03 6:55 ` Jan Beulich
2022-10-03 6:59 ` Sam James
2022-10-03 7:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-10-03 14:40 ` Nick Clifton
2022-10-03 19:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-10-04 7:10 ` Jan Beulich
2022-10-05 12:23 ` Nick Clifton
2022-10-05 13:00 ` Jan Beulich
2022-10-03 7:47 ` Andreas Schwab
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