On 28 Oct 2022, at 12:41, Richard Purdie via lists.openembedded.org 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> This feels like a rather dangerous path to start down.
> 
> HOSTTOOLS is there for host isolation, not to remap the tools to
> different things depending on the distro we're on or versions etc.
> 
> I can see the attraction in using it to manipulate it but I'd kind of
> prefer to error if tar isn't compatible and allow the user to change
> their distro setup rather than magic…

Patch incoming to detect a tar that doesn’t support —xattrs and abort early, 
instead of mysteriously later.

Ross

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