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authorMarius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>2018-07-22 17:58:16 +0200
committerMarius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>2018-07-22 17:58:16 +0200
commit3e95125e9bd0676d4a9add9105217ad3eaef3ff0 (patch)
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parent08b87ab0dfa4bae0eb57f3d8915f655bf20d94fc (diff)
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Revert "packages: Enable threaded compression of source tarballs."
Threaded compression makes tarballs non-deterministic: the result depends on the number of threads used for compressing. See <https://bugs.gnu.org/31015>. This reverts commit c8a3dea847bb9f87fa1876d0c6c3356d6226f121.
-rw-r--r--guix/packages.scm5
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/guix/packages.scm b/guix/packages.scm
index c762fa7c39..cc1f11ace2 100644
--- a/guix/packages.scm
+++ b/guix/packages.scm
@@ -629,11 +629,6 @@ specifies modules in scope when evaluating SNIPPET."
(apply invoke
(string-append #+tar "/bin/tar")
"cvf" #$output
- ;; The bootstrap xz does not support
- ;; threaded compression (introduced in
- ;; 5.2.0), but it ignores the extra flag.
- (string-append "--use-compress-program="
- #+xz "/bin/xz --threads=0")
;; avoid non-determinism in the archive
"--mtime=@0"
"--owner=root:0"