[Buildroot] [PATCH] Improve tar check if bsdtar is installed

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Fri May 30 17:48:12 UTC 2014


Heiko, All,

On 2014-05-30 19:40 +0200, Heiko Abraham spake thusly:
> Am 30.05.2014 um 19:16 schrieb Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>:
> > On 2014-05-30 17:44 +0200, Heiko Abraham spake thusly:
> >> ...
> > if [ -n "${version_bsd}" ]; then
> >> +  # mark as invalid tar version
> >> +  major=1
> >> +  minor=14
> >> +  bugfix=1
> > 
> > Any reason you used 1.14.1? To be obvious that this is an invalid
> > version, I'd have set it to something like:
> >    major=0
> >    minor=0
> 
> yes, we can should version 1.16.0 instead version 1.14.1.  This may be better.
> With this suggestion I will prepare a new patch.

I think using 0.0 is even better: it is clearly an invalid version.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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