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On Tuesday, October 8, 2019 10:14 AM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masah...@socionext.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 5:07 PM Dmitry Goldin dgol...@protonmail.ch wrote:
>
> > Hmm. --sort was introduced in 1.28 in 2014. Do you think it would warrant
> > some sort of version check and fallback or is this something we can expect
> > the user to handle if their distribution happens to not ship anything more
> > recent? A few sensible workarounds come to mind.
>
> I think the former.
After pondering it briefly, maybe substituting the option is a bit less hassle
than checking for
the version and then degrading to a possibly non-reproducible archive.
Maybe we could go with something like the sketch below to replace --sort=name.
That is, if
that's the only problematic flag.
find $cpio_dir -printf "%P\n" | LC_ALL=C sort | \
tar "${KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP:+--mtime=$KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP}" \
--owner=0 --group=0 --numeric-owner \
-Jcf $tarfile -C $cpio_dir/ -T - > /dev/null
I will look at this a bit more closely and give it a test-run later today or
early tomorrow. Then we can decide if its sufficient before submitting another
patch. Other suggestions and pointers are welcome, of course.
--
Best regards,
Dmitry
