[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 04/15] fs/tar: make results reproducible

Fri Nov 18 13:29:45 UTC 2016

Hello,

On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:02:58 +0100, Jérôme Pouiller wrote:

> My workstation only have tar 1.27 installed. When tar version is wrong, 
> compilation does not fail. Instead, host-tar is compiled before any
> other packages (see support/dependencies/check-host-tar.mk)

Yes, I know, but it's a pain to force everyone using an old distro to
build host-tar. Maybe we should make this conditional on
BR2_REPRODUCIBLE?

Thanks,

Thomas
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