Great!, Have a good evening, Tom
On 5 June 2014 20:56, Paul Barker <[email protected]> wrote: > 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, > > -- > Paul Barker > > Email: [email protected] > http://www.paulbarker.me.uk -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
