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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] sanity: Add check for tar older than 1.28
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:50:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191121155018.GB28013@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191121150207.3657-3-richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 03:02:07PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> Older versions break opkg-build when reproducible builds are enabled.
> Rather than trying to be selective based on which features are enabled,
> lets just make this a minimum version.
>...
> +    if LooseVersion(version) < LooseVersion("1.28"):
> +        return "Your version of tar is older than 1.28 and does not have the support needed to enable reproducible builds. Please install a newer version of tar.\n"
>...

How does "Please install a newer version of tar" work in practice
on a supported host distribution like CentOS 7 ?

As user I would expect such things to just work when using
a distribution that is documented as supported.

cu
Adrian


  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-21 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-21 15:02 [PATCH 1/3] opkg: Add upstream fixes Richard Purdie
2019-11-21 15:02 ` [PATCH 2/3] opkg-utils: Fix silent empty/broken opkg package creation Richard Purdie
2019-11-21 15:02 ` [PATCH 3/3] sanity: Add check for tar older than 1.28 Richard Purdie
2019-11-21 15:50   ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2019-11-21 16:54     ` Richard Purdie
2019-11-21 17:02       ` Alexander Kanavin
2019-11-21 17:09       ` Adrian Bunk
2019-11-21 18:09         ` Richard Purdie
2019-11-21 19:14           ` Mark Hatle
2019-11-21 19:33             ` Richard Purdie
2019-11-22  0:27 ` [PATCH 1/3] opkg: Add upstream fixes Khem Raj
2019-11-22  8:58   ` Richard Purdie

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