[Buildroot] [PATCH 10/10 v3] package/tar: drop specific version for host variant

Vincent Fazio vfazio at xes-inc.com
Thu Jan 7 19:40:21 UTC 2021



On 12/29/20 5:01 AM, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Now that we can generate reproducible archives, with all known tar
> versions starting with 1.27, we don't need to clamp the host-tar
> version to the old 1.29, and can now bump to any later version.
> 
> Drop the host-tar version, and use the same as the target variant.
> 
> Note that we still need the _SOURCE trick, to avoid depending on tar
> to extract the tar tarball...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
> Cc: Vincent Fazio <vfazio at xes-inc.com>
> ---
>   package/tar/tar.mk | 8 ++------
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/package/tar/tar.mk b/package/tar/tar.mk
> index 9e0a40e561..7822b1dada 100644
> --- a/package/tar/tar.mk
> +++ b/package/tar/tar.mk
> @@ -29,14 +29,10 @@ endif
>   
>   $(eval $(autotools-package))
>   
> -# host-tar is used to create the archives in the VCS download backends and tar
> -# 1.30 and forward have changed the archive format. So archives generated with
> -# earlier versions are not bit-for-bit reproducible and the hashes would not
> -# match. Hence host-tar must be kept at version 1.29.
> -HOST_TAR_VERSION = 1.29
>   # host-tar: use cpio.gz instead of tar.gz to prevent chicken-egg problem
>   # of needing tar to build tar.
> -HOST_TAR_SOURCE = tar-$(HOST_TAR_VERSION).cpio.gz
> +HOST_TAR_SOURCE = tar-$(TAR_VERSION).cpio.gz
> +
>   define HOST_TAR_EXTRACT_CMDS
>   	mkdir -p $(@D)
>   	cd $(@D) && \
> 

Reviewed-by: Vincent Fazio <vfazio at xes-inc.com>

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Vincent Fazio
Embedded Software Engineer - Linux
Extreme Engineering Solutions, Inc
http://www.xes-inc.com


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