Re: bad timestamps in tarball, was: Fixing the GNU tar requirement.

David Kimdon wrote:

> When I uploaded the 1.0.1 Debian packages the Debian Queue daemon
> rejected the package:
>
> Rejected: libsvn-core-perl_1.0.1-1_powerpc.deb: has 5 file(s) with a
> time stamp too ancient (e.g. usr/lib/perl5/SVN/Client.pm [Mon Jan 5
> 23:06:34 1970]).
>
> A bad clock on my build machine? That was my first thought. It turns
> out cpio created a tarball for us with bogus timestamps:

Maybe it's time to use pax instead. I just checked, and it does not
have the same problem. I don't know how common pax is, but it is *the*
POSIX packager.

/Tobias

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Received on Tue Mar 16 11:30:20 2004