[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 next] package/tar: bump target version to 1.32 (host is kept at 1.29)

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sat Jan 18 14:51:54 UTC 2020


Carlos, All,

On 2020-01-18 11:12 -0300, Carlos Santos spake thusly:
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 9:39 AM Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> wrote:
> > On 2019-11-19 09:18 -0300, unixmania at gmail.com spake thusly:
> > > From: Luc Creti <luc.creti at atos.net>
[--SNIP--]
> > > Hence host-tar must be kept at version 1.29.
[--SNIP--]
> > Applied to master, with all the host-related commentsd and variables
> > moved down to gether. Thanks.
> Can't we at least get rid of the cpio thing, as done in v5?

Why? We can't ensure that the host has tar, and if it does, we can't be
sure we can rely on it to extract the tarball.

cpio is present virtually everywhere, and its format has been stable for
the longest time.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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