Re: posix atime/ctime changes despite mtime being set

[Paul Eggert]

This info is scattered around the tar manual and that it'd be helpful to 
have a single section telling people how to create reproducible 
tarballs, especially since the topic is so tricky. I installed the 
attached patch to try to do that. Further improvements welcome.

It should be easier to create a reproducible tarball. Perhaps we should 
add a "--reproducible" option? (Unfortunately it would need suboptions, 
as not everyone agrees what "reproducible" means. Plus, some things are 
out of tar's control, as can be seen in the attached....)

0001-New-doc-about-reproducible-archives.patch
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