[Buildroot] [PATCH 00/10 v3] support/download: reproducible archives whatever tar version (branch yem/dl-git-tar-pax-2)

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Tue Dec 29 13:09:26 UTC 2020


On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 12:01:15 +0100
"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> wrote:

> This however changes the actual format of the generated archives,
> and they are different from the existing ones. So we also change the
> compression to avoid collision with existign archives on s.b.o, that
> need to be read by older Buildroot versions.

You're in fact no longer changing the compression, as instead you're
using a different tarball name.

I am wondering how this tarball suffix mechanism would be used in my
Go/Cargo vendoring series to avoid the need to version bump the
Cargo/Go packages in lock-step with the vendoring. Indeed, your series
is based on an extension per download backend, but in the case of the
vendoring, it happens regardless of the download backend, but rather
based on the package infrastructure.

How would we handle that ?

Thomas
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