Steven Chamberlain:
> This isn't really limited to data.tar but potentially any tarball.
> Linux packaging ships an equivalent linux-source-3.16.tar.xz built
> from debian/rules.real in a probably non-reproducible way:
>
> cd '$(BUILD_DIR)'; tar -caf 'linux-source-$(UPSTREAMVERSION).tar.xz'
>
Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> Suggested solution:
>
> find foo -print0 | LC_ALL=C sort -z |
> tar --null -T - --no-recursion -Jcvf foo.tar.xz
Seems ideal to me.
> > (I thought this problem would be quite common, so I could add it to the
> > Wiki FAQ).
>
> It's there already:
> https://wiki
Steven Chamberlain:
> Finally I ended up with this:
>
> $ find foo/ -type f -print0 > filelist
> $ tar -Jcvf foo.tar.xz -T filelist --null
>
> Does that seem like the neatest way, or do you have better suggestions?
You are missing the actual sorting on this one. ;)
Suggested solution:
find
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Hi Steven,
On 02/14/2015 09:44 PM, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> What would be a preferred way to build a tar archive with deterministic
> file order?
>
> Firstly let me point out that:
>
> $ find foo/ -type f -print0 | sort -z | xargs -0 tar -cvf f
