bug#21111: possibly bogus in binary tarball

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:55:13PM +0100, Dave Love wrote:
>> The timestamps in the guix-binary-0.8.3.x86_64-linux.tar.xz tarball are
>> all at the epoch, so unpacking it spews messages like
>> 
>>   tar: ./var/guix: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
>> 
>> I guess that's not intentional, but if it is, it's probably worth a note
>> in the installation instructions.
>
> It is intentional, as part of making things deterministic.

Right.

Interestingly, I do not get this message, both with ‘tar xf’ and
‘tar xvf’ with GNU tar 1.28.

I tried with different timezones, and I can’t trigger it.

Dave: What version of GNU tar do you use, and in what timezone?

TIA,
Ludo’.