From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=F4me?= Pouiller Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 14:56:33 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 04/15] fs/tar: make results reproducible In-Reply-To: <20161118222823.155c12a2@free-electrons.com> References: <1479460224-6119-1-git-send-email-jezz@sysmic.org> <20161118222823.155c12a2@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <3980199.Q5mcqT0LFo@sagittea> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Friday 18 November 2016 22:28:23 Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:44:50 +0100, J?r?me Pouiller wrote: > > > > Yes, I know, but it's a pain to force everyone using an old distro to > > > build host-tar. Maybe we should make this conditional on > > > BR2_REPRODUCIBLE? > > > > Last Ubuntu LTS is 16.04 and Debian 9 will be stable in a few months > > (maybe simultaneous with next Buildroot version). > > > > So, IMHO it not justified to add a dirty condition in check-host-tar.sh. > > I think you don't really realize how big companies work. They will be > using such version in 3 or 5 years maybe. > > We have people still using RHEL5, even though it's almost 10 years old, > and its support going to stop next year. Supporting old distributions > is important for Buildroot, so you can't just sweep away the problem by > pretending that it doesn't exist with modern distributions. This patch did not break support for old distributions, but OK. -- J?r?me Pouiller, Sysmic Embedded Linux specialist http://www.sysmic.fr