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From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>, Jim Davis <jim.epost@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] package/Makefile: move source tar creation to a function
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 08:09:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55E692B0.1030107@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAqcGHnrKU4DJanSJUJMdd6vz2_OR5X2Z51NmrzX1RpT1RQQXw@mail.gmail.com>

Dne 2.9.2015 v 06:58 Riku Voipio napsal(a):
> On 1 September 2015 at 17:31, Jim Davis <jim.epost@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> - Replace symlink to self with tar --transform
> 
>> While probably everyone -- or almost everyone -- uses gnu tar, that
>> particular option isn't available in older versions of gnu tar
>> (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/uk.comp.os.linux/-7LDdMSRo5w).
>> Perhaps something could be added to Documentation/Changes about the
>> gnu tar version required?
> 
> Looking at the changelog, this was added to tar 1.16 which was
> released in 2006. Nine years sounds like a reasonable timeframe to
> expect a feature being available?

But it costs us only a this ln and rm invocation to continue supporting
older GNU tar versions and non-GNU implementation. So I'd leave this
part as is. The rest of the patch is OK.

Michal


  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-02  6:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-01 13:48 [PATCH] package/Makefile: move source tar creation to a function riku.voipio
2015-09-01 14:31 ` Jim Davis
2015-09-02  4:58   ` Riku Voipio
2015-09-02  6:09     ` Michal Marek [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-09-02  9:57 riku.voipio

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