Filetimestamps and pkg_tar

[Jeremy Lewi]

Hi bazel users,

I'm using the pkg_tar rule to produce a .tar.gz file. 

The timestamps on the files in the tarball end up being Dec 31 1969.

Is there any way to prevent bazel from setting the timestamps to Dec 31 1969?

The timestamps are too old for the tools I'm trying to work with. Specifically, the unpacked tarball is a python package. If you run 

python setup.py install

I get an error because zip can't handle timestamps before 1980.

I guess one solution would be to write my own genrule to create the tarball.

Suggestions?

Thanks

J

[Kamal Marhubi]

I can see it making sense to provide a timesstamp attribute on the pkg_tar rule. The default could be unix time 0, but allowing users to change it. Maybe open an issue / feature request for it?

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[Jeremy Lewi]

Thanks I'll do that.

J

[b424...@gmail.com]

Has this issue been created? I'm similarly affected and wasn't seeing it on GitHub.

Thanks!

[Kristina Chodorow]

I don't think it has been.

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[Ian McGinnis]

Oops - originally posted with the wrong email...

Thanks Kristina, I've created an issue for this here: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/1299