This breaks reproducible builds due to encoding information specific to the filesystem which was used to build the package, information which we are never interested in for packaging purposes anyway.
It also means that attempting to extract a package file as root (or fakeroot) might result in angry warnings being printed to the console by bsdtar, followed by a non-zero exit code, unless the user remembers to use --no-fflags during extraction. This is unpleasant UI, even if pacman itself won't care about these. Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <[email protected]> --- scripts/makepkg.sh.in | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in index abe669de..908ce751 100644 --- a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in +++ b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in @@ -721,7 +721,7 @@ create_package() { msg2 "$(gettext "Compressing package...")" # TODO: Maybe this can be set globally for robustness shopt -s -o pipefail - list_package_files | LANG=C bsdtar -cnf - --null --files-from - | + list_package_files | LANG=C bsdtar --no-fflags -cnf - --null --files-from - | compress_as "$PKGEXT" > "${pkg_file}" || ret=$? shopt -u -o pipefail @@ -812,7 +812,7 @@ create_srcpackage() { # TODO: Maybe this can be set globally for robustness shopt -s -o pipefail - LANG=C bsdtar -cLf - ${pkgbase} | compress_as "$SRCEXT" > "${pkg_file}" || ret=$? + LANG=C bsdtar --no-fflags -cLf - ${pkgbase} | compress_as "$SRCEXT" > "${pkg_file}" || ret=$? shopt -u -o pipefail -- 2.23.0
