Re: [Bug-tar] Tar 1.27 has become non-deterministic

[Nathan Stratton Treadway]

On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 09:27:04 +1100, David Barri wrote:
> Sure. Here's a diff between two tars I created using tar -cp -T filelist
> 
> > diff -u <(xxd a.tar) <(xxd b.tar)
> --- /proc/self/fd/11 2013-11-03 09:21:32.144102315 +1100
> +++ /proc/self/fd/12 2013-11-03 09:21:32.147435636 +1100
> @@ -188775,7 +188775,7 @@
>  02e1660: 0000 0000 3030 3030 3634 3400 3030 3030  ....0000644.0000
>  02e1670: 3030 3000 3030 3030 3030 3000 3030 3030  000.0000000.0000
>  02e1680: 3030 3030 3136 3100 3132 3233 3530 3236  0000161.12235026
> -02e1690: 3436 3300 3031 3136 3433 0020 4c00 0000  463.011643. L...
> +02e1690: 3531 3100 3031 3136 3335 0020 4c00 0000  511.011635. L...

Are these both created with tar 1.27?  If so, how does the v1.26 file
look in those same spots?

Also, if you showed a some more lines of context (i.e. "-U 9" or so) I
think you'd see the path names of the archive members in question, which
might give you a useful hint...


                                                        Nathan

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