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Subject: Re: [PATCH] package/Makefile: move source tar creation to a function
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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