Complay with the spirit, if not the letter of the GNU sparse file rule.
diff --git a/libarchive/archive_write_set_format_pax.c b/libarchive/archive_write_set_format_pax.c index 6a301ac..5fdfd9d 100644 --- a/libarchive/archive_write_set_format_pax.c +++ b/libarchive/archive_write_set_format_pax.c
@@ -1650,13 +1650,14 @@ * GNU PAX Format 1.0 requires the special name, which pattern is: * <dir>/GNUSparseFile.<pid>/<original file name> * + * Since reproducable archives are more important, use 0 as pid. + * * This function is used for only Sparse file, a file type of which * is regular file. */ static char * build_gnu_sparse_name(char *dest, const char *src) { - char buff[64]; const char *p; /* Handle the null filename case. */ @@ -1682,15 +1683,9 @@ break; } -#if HAVE_GETPID && 0 /* Disable this as pax attribute name. */ - sprintf(buff, "GNUSparseFile.%d", getpid()); -#else - /* If the platform can't fetch the pid, don't include it. */ - strcpy(buff, "GNUSparseFile"); -#endif /* General case: build a ustar-compatible name adding * "/GNUSparseFile/". */ - build_ustar_entry_name(dest, src, p - src, buff); + build_ustar_entry_name(dest, src, p - src, "GNUSparseFile.0"); return (dest); }