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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:50:18 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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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