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Re: reproducible tar archives

From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: reproducible tar archives
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 13:35:28 -0700
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On 12/13/24 01:05, Simon Josefsson wrote:

What is not clear to me is how older implementations handle seeing a
--format=posix aka (?) PAX format archive, and which these
implementations are.
Solaris 10 /usr/bin/tar will read a PAX format archive as if it contained additional files, whose names are funny and whose contents contain PAX metadata. This was the design goal of the PAX format.
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