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* doc/tar.texi: Define reproducibility.

Sergey Poznyakoff 1 年之前
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 @node Reproducibility
 @node Reproducibility
 @section Making @command{tar} Archives More Reproducible
 @section Making @command{tar} Archives More Reproducible
 
 
-Sometimes it is important for an archive to be reproducible,
-so that one can be easily verify it to have been derived solely from its input.
+Sometimes it is important for an archive to be @dfn{reproducible},
+so that one can be easily verify it to have been derived solely from
+its input.  We call an archive reproducible, if an archive
+created from the same set of input files with the same command line
+options is byte-to-byte equivalent to the original one.
+
 However, two archives created by @GNUTAR{} from two sets of input
 However, two archives created by @GNUTAR{} from two sets of input
 files normally might differ even if the input files have the same
 files normally might differ even if the input files have the same
 contents and @GNUTAR{} was invoked the same way on both sets of input.
 contents and @GNUTAR{} was invoked the same way on both sets of input.