[MacPorts] #61276: meson @0.55.3: /usr/bin/gnutar: meson-0.55.3/COPYING: implausibly old time stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00

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#61276: meson @0.55.3: /usr/bin/gnutar: meson-0.55.3/COPYING: implausibly old time
stamp 1970-01-01 01:00:00
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  Reporter:  ballapete  |      Owner:  git@…
      Type:  defect     |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal     |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports      |    Version:  2.6.3
Resolution:             |   Keywords:  tiger leopard powerpc legacy-os
      Port:  meson      |
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Comment (by ryandesign):

 Replying to [comment:19 kencu]:
 > josh, the ask here is that base not use the full path to gnutar on
 Tiger, but just use the bare gnutar command, so a newer version installed
 by the gnutar port would be found and used.
 >
 > What do you think?

 Base uses whatever path to tar was specified using the configure argument
 `--with-gnutar`, or if it wasn't specified, it finds it. On newer systems,
 for example, there is no /usr/bin/gnutar, so it finds /usr/bin/tar
 instead. If a user wishes to, a user could reconfigure MacPorts to use a
 gnutar installed by a separate bootstrap MacPorts installation, similar to
 the way you suggest they do so to use a newer libcurl.

 Replying to [comment:20 kencu]:
 > There is also this option for tar {{{--warning=no-timestamp}}} but the
 tar on Tiger doesn't accept that, it appears:

 We wouldn't want to use it anyway. We don't want to suppress warnings
 about invalid timestamps; instead, we want tar to see that the archive
 contains valid timestamps.

 I still suggest that what I wrote in comment:15 is the path forward for
 this issue.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/61276#comment:21>
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