From 3e95125e9bd0676d4a9add9105217ad3eaef3ff0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 17:58:16 +0200
Subject: Revert "packages: Enable threaded compression of source tarballs."

Threaded compression makes tarballs non-deterministic: the result depends on
the number of threads used for compressing.  See <https://bugs.gnu.org/31015>.

This reverts commit c8a3dea847bb9f87fa1876d0c6c3356d6226f121.
---
 guix/packages.scm | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

(limited to 'guix')

diff --git a/guix/packages.scm b/guix/packages.scm
index c762fa7c39..cc1f11ace2 100644
--- a/guix/packages.scm
+++ b/guix/packages.scm
@@ -629,11 +629,6 @@ (define (first-file directory)
               (apply invoke
                      (string-append #+tar "/bin/tar")
                      "cvf" #$output
-                     ;; The bootstrap xz does not support
-                     ;; threaded compression (introduced in
-                     ;; 5.2.0), but it ignores the extra flag.
-                     (string-append "--use-compress-program="
-                                    #+xz "/bin/xz --threads=0")
                      ;; avoid non-determinism in the archive
                      "--mtime=@0"
                      "--owner=root:0"
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