From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 17:48:47 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/tar: bump version to 1.30 In-Reply-To: <5afaa00d-083c-2b0d-8375-938f854371a6@mind.be> References: <20180709224218.32080-1-bernd.kuhls@t-online.de> <5afaa00d-083c-2b0d-8375-938f854371a6@mind.be> Message-ID: <20180715154847.GD2516@scaer> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'