Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Docs: Add cpio requirement to changes.rst

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> writes:

> On 4/19/22 21:48, Bruno Moreira-Guedes wrote:
>> diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
>> index a337e8eabfe1..41a44e5f47e6 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
>> @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ iptables               1.4.2            iptables -V
>>  openssl & libcrypto    1.0.0            openssl version
>>  bc                     1.06.95          bc --version
>>  Sphinx\ [#f1]_         1.7              sphinx-build --version
>> +cpio                   any              cpio --version
>>  ====================== ===============  ========================================
>>  
>
> You mentioned that **any** version of cpio will work, right?
> Or is there a specific minimum version?

The statement of "any" seems fairly explicit to me.  It has been a few
... decades ... since cpio has seen any sort of rapid development; do
you have any reason to think there might be a version in the wild that
would not work?

jon