From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 12:40:08 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 04/15] fs/tar: make results reproducible In-Reply-To: <1479460224-6119-5-git-send-email-jezz@sysmic.org> References: <1479460224-6119-1-git-send-email-jezz@sysmic.org> <1479460224-6119-5-git-send-email-jezz@sysmic.org> Message-ID: <20161118124008.2b7a3178@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 10:10:13 +0100, J?r?me Pouiller wrote: > -# Minimal version = 1.17 (previous versions do not correctly unpack archives > -# containing hard-links if the --strip-components option is used). > +# Minimal version = 1.28 (previous versions do not does not support --sort=name) > major_min=1 > -minor_min=17 > +minor_min=28 Unfortunately, this version dependency is not really acceptable I'm afraid. Ubuntu 14.04, which is really not that old, only has tar 1.27. And the old Debian 6.0 that I have for the autobuilders to test "old systems" uses tar 1.23. Can we find a better way? Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com