Re: [PATCH 1/3] tar-replacement-native: avoid race condition with host tar

[Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>]

On Fri, 2015-08-14 at 12:03 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> 
> On 14 August 2015 at 12:01, Paul Eggleton
> <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>         Or install the buildtools perhaps.
>         
> 
> 
> Yes, I had that in my head but someone failed to write it down.
> There's a fair chance that a host with a sufficiently old tar also
> needs other updates, and that's when buildtools is used (which
> includes tar).

The hosts we talk about (Debian 7, CentOS 6) work fine for normal usage
without having to install buildtools. Having to install them for a
situation that could also be dealt with by bitbake automatically seems
not very user friendly.

On IRC, Ross suggested that I should rewrite the regular tar recipe such
that it installs tar as opt-in binary and remove the (mostly obsolete)
tar-replacement-native). I'll send updated patches based on that.

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Best Regards, Patrick Ohly

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