fs/tar: explicitly set extended header values to ensure binary reproducibility
authorAtharva Lele <itsatharva@gmail.com>
Sat, 6 Jul 2019 06:55:01 +0000 (12:25 +0530)
committerPeter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Sun, 14 Jul 2019 10:21:11 +0000 (12:21 +0200)
commit9c449f9dd8d6a5f3545a7c191b64cd7cd886ce58
tree6c31037556f1fc07e4265e044a3c6a0831c4133a
parent3a8b7f75acdda9e7155da80e7cf63970a06f34b0
fs/tar: explicitly set extended header values to ensure binary reproducibility

Since we use --xattrs-include='*' to include all extended attributes,
tar creates a PAX formatted archive. The archive metadata captures atime
and ctime of files. To fix this, GNU recommends that we pass this added
argument to tar to create binary reproducible packages. Setting of mtime
is handled in fs/common.mk using touch on all files.

Diffoscope output pre-change: https://gitlab.com/snippets/1871111
Diffoscope output after change is blank i.e. binary reproducibile rootfs
is created.

GNU Recommendation: https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html#SEC147

Signed-off-by: Atharva Lele <itsatharva@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matt Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
fs/tar/tar.mk