Issue #456 has been updated by Thierry Laurion.
Martin Roth wrote in #note-3:
New 4.19 tarballs have been pushed, but they use the same name. I updated the release notes stating that they had been updated.
I looked at changing the name, but to do that, the actual release number needs to be changed on the website. The names are tightly coupled. Since this is still the 4.19 release, just a repack of the tarballs, the names needed to remain the same. I felt that changing the release name would create more long-term confusion, so at least for now, the binaries are posted with the same name.
I have preserved the old binaries, but moved them out of the download folder.
Let me know if this is a satisfactory resolution. I'll mark this issue fixed after any further discussion or lack of discussion.
coreboot 4.19 and coreboot-blobs tarballs are now correct.
This issue can now be closed!
Thanks!
---------------------------------------- Bug #456: coreboot 4.19 tarballs have bad timestamps https://ticket.coreboot.org/issues/456#change-1419
* Author: Thierry Laurion * Status: Feedback * Priority: High * Category: infrastructure * Target version: 4.19 * Start date: 2023-02-08 * Affected versions: 4.19, master * Needs backport to: 4.19, master * Related links: Thank you for the fixes. Could you document the old and new hashes somewhere? ---------------------------------------- As reported on #coreboot channel, coreboot 4.19 tarballs contain invalid timestamps (year 1901) for all contained files.
Reproducility of issue: wget https://www.coreboot.org/releases/coreboot-4.19.tar.xz user@heads-tests:/tmp/test$ ls -al coreboot-4.19.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 56908588 Jan 26 21:46 coreboot-4.19.tar.xz user@heads-tests:/tmp/test$ tar Jxvf coreboot-4.19.tar.xz coreboot-4.19/ coreboot-4.19/.checkpatch.conf tar: coreboot-4.19/.checkpatch.conf: implausibly old time stamp -9223372036854775808 coreboot-4.19/.clang-format tar: coreboot-4.19/.clang-format: implausibly old time stamp -9223372036854775808 coreboot-4.19/.coreboot-version tar: coreboot-4.19/.coreboot-version: implausibly old time stamp -9223372036854775808 coreboot-4.19/.crossgcc-version tar: coreboot-4.19/.crossgcc-version: implausibly old time stamp -9223372036854775808 coreboot-4.19/.editorconfig tar: coreboot-4.19/.editorconfig: implausibly old time stamp -9223372036854775808
Cause: @icon investigated and said "d05ea79e40c4 util/release/build-release: Fix style issues at least that change to the tstamp variable looks very suspicious"
flx suggested to recreate the archive: "I think 4.19-2 would be better. There are no changes to coreboot or anything. It also doesn't need a new git tag"