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| -rw-r--r-- | meta/classes/sanity.bbclass | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass index 37354af9d5..33e5e5952f 100644 --- a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass +++ b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass @@ -561,6 +561,14 @@ def check_tar_version(sanity_data): version = result.split()[3] if LooseVersion(version) < LooseVersion("1.28"): return "Your version of tar is older than 1.28 and does not have the support needed to enable reproducible builds. Please install a newer version of tar (you could use the project's buildtools-tarball from our last release or use scripts/install-buildtools).\n" + + try: + result = subprocess.check_output(["tar", "--help"], stderr=subprocess.STDOUT).decode('utf-8') + if "--xattrs" not in result: + return "Your tar doesn't support --xattrs, please use GNU tar.\n" + except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e: + return "Unable to execute tar --help, exit code %d\n%s\n" % (e.returncode, e.output) + return None # We use git parameters and functionality only found in 1.7.8 or later |