Many files with date Dec 31, 1969

Christian Hergert christian at hergert.me
Fri Dec 21 20:38:17 UTC 2018


On 12/21/18 12:33 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
> Just noticed one thing strange.  Many of the files I have installed from
> 2 flatpak apps (atom and signal) have bogus dates.

I believe this is an ostree'ism to ensure that files are deduplicated
correctly (since metadata is involved) and consistent across deployments.

  https://ostree.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manual/repo/

-- Christian


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