From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 15:51:54 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 next] package/tar: bump target version to 1.32 (host is kept at 1.29) In-Reply-To: References: <20191119121831.2329-1-unixmania@gmail.com> <20200118123934.GV22540@scaer> Message-ID: <20200118145154.GC22540@scaer> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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 wrote: > > On 2019-11-19 09:18 -0300, unixmania at gmail.com spake thusly: > > > From: Luc Creti [--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. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 561 099 427 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'