https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/FileOrderInTarballs
suggests find|sort | tar --null -T - --no-recursion -cf archive.tar but the --no-recursion is applied at the wrong place - it must come before the file list. This was "fixed" in tar 1.28 (in stretch/sid): 2014-01-10 Sergey Poznyakoff <g...@gnu.org> Fix the use of --no-recursion and --recursion options. Each option remains in effect until cancelled by the next ocurrence of its counterpart, as stated in the documentation. so that recipe should probably be find|sort | tar --no-recursion --null -T - -cf archive.tar Now let me find all packages where I applied this ... http://codesearch.debian.net/results/--no-recursion%20path%3Adebian%2Frules/page_0 Hmm, not that helpful ... Andreas _______________________________________________ Reproducible-builds mailing list Reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reproducible-builds