[Buildroot] [Bug 12256] package tar is outdated (1.29 is 3 years old)

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https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12256

Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> ---
We can't upgrade the version of tar without being cautious.

The host tar is used to create the archives in the VCS download backends
(git, cvs, svn, hg...) and tar 1.30 and forward have changed the wau they
generate the archives.

So, all the archives we had generated before 1.30 was released are not
bit-for-bit reproducible (even though the extracted content would be),
so the hashes we have for those archives would not match.

Hence we need to keep host-tar to 1.29.

For the target variant, this is less important of course, but so far
no one submitted a patch. It's also that we do not have many packages
for which the host and target versions are different.

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