Older versions break opkg-build when reproducible builds are enabled. Rather than trying to be selective based on which features are enabled, lets just make this a minimum version.
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> --- meta/classes/sanity.bbclass | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass index a14bf53883c..12ea14796e8 100644 --- a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass +++ b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass @@ -523,6 +523,7 @@ def check_wsl(d): # Tar version 1.24 and onwards handle overwriting symlinks correctly # but earlier versions do not; this needs to work properly for sstate +# Version 1.28 is needed so opkg-build works correctly when reproducibile builds are enabled def check_tar_version(sanity_data): from distutils.version import LooseVersion import subprocess @@ -532,7 +533,9 @@ def check_tar_version(sanity_data): return "Unable to execute tar --version, exit code %d\n%s\n" % (e.returncode, e.output) version = result.split()[3] if LooseVersion(version) < LooseVersion("1.24"): - return "Your version of tar is older than 1.24 and has bugs which will break builds. Please install a newer version of tar.\n" + return "Your version of tar is older than 1.24 and has bugs which will break builds. Please install a newer version of tar (1.28+).\n" + if LooseVersion(version) < LooseVersion("1.28"): + return "Your version of tar is older than 1.28 and does not have the support needed to enable reproducible builds. Please install a newer version of tar (you could use the projects buildtoold-tarball from our last release).\n" return None # We use git parameters and functionality only found in 1.7.8 or later -- 2.20.1 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core