Re: [Bug-tar] Tar 1.27 has become non-deterministic

[David Barri]

​Good news. I tried the patch and it fixes the problem!

# 1.27 unpatched
> for f in $(seq 200); do tar -cp -T filelist -f - | md5sum; done | uniq
179a60d139644f62142b35fd2c292e68  -
2e2ed298b902d6abc338358bafbd3772  -
8c5f62d601c1f20dc42a8e94f6a39cb0  -
195c0c2c4814729ee063e08af4fc5ca5  -
e01aebfa80464e78d5374c926766cb48  -

# 1.27 patched
> for f in $(seq 200); do ./tar2 -cp -T filelist -f - | md5sum; done | uniq
06b8780d15e90f7f026ea5da2b1e5aaf  -

Cheers,
David