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Re: supporting deterministic 'ar'

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:52:03 -0800, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>>
>>> * any preference about flag name?
>>
>> Well I did think that "deterministic" was slightly off, because it
>> implies
>> that non-deterministic archives are random somehow, but I could not come
>> up
>> with a better suggestion.  So lets keep it as deterministic.
>>
> 
> How about no-stamp?

If I can vote I would chose no-stamp, first I wanted to propose no
timestamp but 
since it also set gid/uid to 0, this option seems better.
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