[OE-core] [PATCH 1/3] tar-replacement-native: avoid race condition with host tar

[Paul Eggleton]

On Friday 14 August 2015 17:38:38 Patrick Ohly wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-08-14 at 15:56 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > On Friday 14 August 2015 16:52:08 Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2015-08-14 at 12:03 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> > > > On 14 August 2015 at 12:01, Paul Eggleton
> > > > 
> > > > <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > > >         Or install the buildtools perhaps.
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, I had that in my head but someone failed to write it down.
> > > > There's a fair chance that a host with a sufficiently old tar also
> > > > needs other updates, and that's when buildtools is used (which
> > > > includes tar).
> > > 
> > > The hosts we talk about (Debian 7, CentOS 6) work fine for normal usage
> > > without having to install buildtools.
> > 
> > Really? You must have added *something* on top of CentOS 6 because last I
> > checked its git, tar and python versions supplied out of the box were way
> > too old to even get the build to start.
> 
> I thought someone had said that CentOS is okay out-of-the-box, but I may
> have misunderstood.

CentOS 7 might be though since it's quite a bit newer.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre