[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/2] check-host-tar.sh: blacklist tar 1.30+

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Tue Feb 27 16:03:35 UTC 2018


>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com> writes:

 > Tar 1.30 changed the --numeric-owner output for filenames > 100 characters,
 > leading to hash mismatches for the tar archives we create ourselves from
 > git.  This is really a fix for a bug in earlier tar versions regarding
 > deterministic output, so it is unlikely to be reverted in later versions.

 > To work around this issue, blacklist tar 1.30+ similar to how we do it for
 > pre-1.17 versions so Buildroot falls back to building host-tar.

 > Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
 > ---
 >  Changes since v1:
 >   - None

Committed after adding a link to
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2018-January/211222.html
which explains the issue in more details, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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