Issue #456 has been reported by Thierry Laurion.
---------------------------------------- Bug #456: coreboot 4.19 tarballs are unusable https://ticket.coreboot.org/issues/456
* Author: Thierry Laurion * Status: New * Priority: High * Category: infrastructure * Target version: 4.19 * Start date: 2023-02-08 * Affected versions: 4.19, master * Needs backport to: 4.19, master ---------------------------------------- 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"