linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] Revert "kheaders: substituting --sort in archive creation"

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Date:   Wed, 24 May 2023 22:10:47 +0200
From:   Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Revert "kheaders: substituting --sort in archive
 creation"

On Sun 21 May 2023 22:23:35 GMT, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> This reverts commit 700dea5a0bea9f64eba89fae7cb2540326fdfdc1.
> 
> The reason for that commit was --sort=ORDER introduced in
> tar 1.28 (2014). More than 3 years have passed since then.
> 
> Requiring GNU tar 1.28 should be fine now because we require
> GCC 5.1 (2015).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>


> 
>  kernel/gen_kheaders.sh | 9 +++------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh b/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh
> index 1ef9a87511f5..6d443ea22bb7 100755
> --- a/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh
> +++ b/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh
> @@ -83,12 +83,9 @@ find $cpio_dir -type f -print0 |
>  	xargs -0 -P8 -n1 perl -pi -e 'BEGIN {undef $/;}; s/\/\*((?!SPDX).)*?\*\///smg;'
>  
>  # Create archive and try to normalize metadata for reproducibility.
> -# For compatibility with older versions of tar, files are fed to tar
> -# pre-sorted, as --sort=name might not be available.
> -find $cpio_dir -printf "./%P\n" | LC_ALL=C sort | \
> -    tar "${KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP:+--mtime=$KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP}" \
> -    --owner=0 --group=0 --numeric-owner --no-recursion \
> -    -I $XZ -cf $tarfile -C $cpio_dir/ -T - > /dev/null
> +tar "${KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP:+--mtime=$KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP}" \
> +    --owner=0 --group=0 --sort=name --numeric-owner \
> +    -I $XZ -cf $tarfile -C $cpio_dir/ . > /dev/null
>  
>  echo $headers_md5 > kernel/kheaders.md5
>  echo "$this_file_md5" >> kernel/kheaders.md5
> -- 
> 2.39.2

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