On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 11:25:35AM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > From: Thomas Ingleby <[email protected]> > > * Some options of GNU tar do not exist on other implementations > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Ingleby <[email protected]>
I've made a couple of slight further changes, hope you don't mind.
I've changed the subject to:
opkg-build: Detect if tar supports '--format' option
I've also added a comment before the block of code which sets tarformat:
+# Determine if tar supports the --format argument by checking the help output.
+#
+# This is needed because:
+# - Busybox tar doesn't support '--format'
+# - On some Linux distros, tar now defaults to posix format if '--format'
+# isn't explictly specified
+# - Opkg doesn't currently support posix format archives
+#
+# It's easier to check for mention of the '--format' option than to detect the
+# tar implementation and maintain a list of which support '--format'.
I've merged this to master with those changes. Sadly I made an error writing the
comment and pushed too soon so I've pushed another commit to fix that.
Many thanks,
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Paul Barker
Email: [email protected]
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