@@ -29,14 +29,10 @@ endif
$(eval $(autotools-package))
-# host-tar is used to create the archives in the VCS download backends and tar
-# 1.30 and forward have changed the archive format. So archives generated with
-# earlier versions are not bit-for-bit reproducible and the hashes would not
-# match. Hence host-tar must be kept at version 1.29.
-HOST_TAR_VERSION = 1.29
# host-tar: use cpio.gz instead of tar.gz to prevent chicken-egg problem
# of needing tar to build tar.
-HOST_TAR_SOURCE = tar-$(HOST_TAR_VERSION).cpio.gz
+HOST_TAR_SOURCE = tar-$(TAR_VERSION).cpio.gz
+
define HOST_TAR_EXTRACT_CMDS
mkdir -p $(@D)
cd $(@D) && \
Now we can generate reproducible archives, with all known tar versions starting with 1.27, we don't need to clamp the host-tar version to the old 1.29, and can now bump to any later version. Drop the host-tar version, and use the same as the target variant. Note that we still need the _SOURCE trick, to avoid depending on tar to extract the tar tarball... Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> --- package/tar/tar.mk | 8 ++------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)