[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 04/15] fs/tar: make results reproducible

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Nov 18 11:40:08 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 10:10:13 +0100, Jérôme Pouiller wrote:

> -# Minimal version = 1.17 (previous versions do not correctly unpack archives
> -# containing hard-links if the --strip-components option is used).
> +# Minimal version = 1.28 (previous versions do not does not support --sort=name)
>  major_min=1
> -minor_min=17
> +minor_min=28

Unfortunately, this version dependency is not really acceptable I'm
afraid. Ubuntu 14.04, which is really not that old, only has tar 1.27.

And the old Debian 6.0 that I have for the autobuilders to test "old
systems" uses tar 1.23.

Can we find a better way?

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com


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