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 15:56 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Friday 14 August 2015 16:52:08 Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Really? You must have added *something* on top of CentOS 6 because last I 
> checked its git, tar and python versions supplied out of the box were way too 
> old to even get the build to start.

I thought someone had said that CentOS is okay out-of-the-box, but I may
have misunderstood.

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Best Regards, Patrick Ohly

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