From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=A9r=C3=B4me_Pouiller?= Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:44:50 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 04/15] fs/tar: make results reproducible In-Reply-To: <20161118142945.60adccd8@free-electrons.com> References: <1479460224-6119-1-git-send-email-jezz@sysmic.org> <1479460224-6119-5-git-send-email-jezz@sysmic.org> <20161118124008.2b7a3178@free-electrons.com> <28c618b1c91a0df16af32645666e7198@sysmic.org> <20161118142945.60adccd8@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 2016-11-18 14:29, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:02:58 +0100, J?r?me Pouiller wrote: > >> My workstation only have tar 1.27 installed. When tar version is >> wrong, >> compilation does not fail. Instead, host-tar is compiled before any >> other packages (see support/dependencies/check-host-tar.mk) > > 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. -- J?r?me Pouiller