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Re: [Bug-tar] make your tar archive even more anonymous
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Joerg Schilling |
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Re: [Bug-tar] make your tar archive even more anonymous |
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Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:21:24 +0200 |
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nail 11.22 3/20/05 |
Denis Excoffier <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> When tar (e.g. tar-1.26) creates an archive of a directory, the
> ordering of files (as shown by "ls -f") is preserved in the archive.
>
> I would like an option to make this ordering constant (e.g. alphanumeric),
> in order that two directories that compare equal (with "diff -r") would
> produce the same archive (provided of course that appropriate --mtime,
> --owner, --group and --mode options are also set to the same values).
Why exactly do you like to have this?
> Note. "diff -r" is not the better tool for directory comparison since
> symbolic links are always traversed. But you get the picture.
Because diff -r is not useful for tree comparing in general, star supports a
user tailorable -diff option.
Did you check "star -diff -v diffopts=...."?
Jörg
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- Re: [Bug-tar] make your tar archive even more anonymous, (continued)
- Re: [Bug-tar] make your tar archive even more anonymous, Joerg Schilling, 2012/07/06
- Re: [Bug-tar] make your tar archive even more anonymous, Denis Excoffier, 2012/07/06
- Re: [Bug-tar] make your tar archive even more anonymous, Denis Excoffier, 2012/07/09
- Re: [Bug-tar] make your tar archive even more anonymous, Paul Eggert, 2012/07/09
- Re: [Bug-tar] make your tar archive even more anonymous, Denis Excoffier, 2012/07/10
- Re: [Bug-tar] make your tar archive even more anonymous, Denis Excoffier, 2012/07/11
Re: [Bug-tar] make your tar archive even more anonymous, Joerg Schilling, 2012/07/06
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