[Git][reproducible-builds/reproducible-website][master] archives: update paragraph about `tar` and `--clamp-mtime` flag

[Chris Lamb (@lamby)]

Chris Lamb pushed to branch master at Reproducible Builds / reproducible-website


Commits:
37e7878f by Pol Dellaiera at 2023-12-12T08:38:29+01:00
archives: update paragraph about `tar` and `--clamp-mtime` flag

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1 changed file:

- _docs/archives.md


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@@ -45,15 +45,10 @@ $ find build -newermt "@${SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH}" -print0 |
 $ zip -r product.zip build
 {% endhighlight %}
 
-A patch has been written to simplify the latter operation with GNU
-Tar. It is currently available in Debian since
-[tar](https://packages.qa.debian.org/tar) version 1.28-1. Hopefully it
-will be integrated upstream soon, but you might want to use it with
-caution. It adds a new `--clamp-mtime` flag which will only set the time
+In `tar` >= 1.29, the `--clamp-mtime` flag can be used to only set the
 when the file is more recent than the value specified with `--mtime`:
 
 {% highlight sh %}
-# Only in Debian unstable for now
 $ tar --mtime='2015-10-21 00:00Z' --clamp-mtime -cf product.tar build
 {% endhighlight %}
 



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