03/05: doc: Clarify that tar timestamp warnings affect tar <= 1.26.

[Ludovic Courtès]

civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.

commit e9ba6357e31935aaf75c02afaf3806d77e00b1fb
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date:   Fri Jul 24 01:07:34 2015 +0200

    doc: Clarify that tar timestamp warnings affect tar <= 1.26.
    
    * doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Explain that warnings were triggered 
by
      tar <= 1.26.
---
 doc/guix.texi |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 4f614e2..019b5ce 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -313,8 +313,10 @@ Do @emph{not} unpack the tarball on a working Guix system 
since that
 would overwrite its own essential files.
 
 The @code{--warning=no-timestamp} option makes sure address@hidden does
-not emit warnings about ``implausibly old time stamps''.  These
-warnings, sometimes enabled by default, stem from the fact that all the
+not emit warnings about ``implausibly old time stamps'' (such
+warnings were triggered by address@hidden 1.26 and older; recent
+versions are fine.)
+They stem from the fact that all the
 files in the archive have their modification time set to zero (which
 means January 1st, 1970.)  This is done on purpose to make sure the
 archive content is independent of its creation time, thus making it