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From: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/tar: bump version to 1.30
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 17:48:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180715154847.GD2516@scaer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5afaa00d-083c-2b0d-8375-938f854371a6@mind.be>

Arnout, All,

On 2018-07-10 10:00 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
>  Have you seen b8fa273d500b4?
> 
>     check-host-tar.sh: blacklist tar 1.30+
> 
>     Tar 1.30 changed the --numeric-owner output for filenames > 100 characters,
>     leading to hash mismatches for the tar archives we create ourselves from
>     git.  This is really a fix for a bug in earlier tar versions regarding
>     deterministic output, so it is unlikely to be reverted in later versions.
> 
>     For more details, see:
>     http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2018-January/211222.html
> 
>     To work around this issue, blacklist tar 1.30+ similar to how we do it for
>     pre-1.17 versions so Buildroot falls back to building host-tar.
> 
> 
>  Marked as Rejected...

Yet at some point, we will want to bump tar to a newer version.

What I would suggest is that we pin the host version to 1.29, and still
allow bumping the target version, so maybe something like:

    TAR_VERSION = 1.30
    HOST_TAR_VERSION = 1.29

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-15 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-09 22:42 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/tar: bump version to 1.30 Bernd Kuhls
2018-07-09 22:58 ` Bernd Kuhls
2018-07-10  8:02   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2018-07-10  8:00 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2018-07-15 15:48   ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
2018-07-17 21:34     ` Peter Korsgaard

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