linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] kheaders: make it possible to override TAR

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Message-ID: <aH1KhpnXl0aRt8HB@fjasle.eu>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 21:59:02 +0200
From: Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@...ux.dev>
To: Michał Górny <mgorny@...too.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, Sam James <sam@...too.org>,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] kheaders: make it possible to override TAR

On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 09:08:20PM +0200 Michał Górny wrote:
> On Sat, 2025-07-19 at 16:10 -0400, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
[...]
> > I assume that other places that call tar within the build process are
> > not problematic because they do not use GNU specific options, such as
> > scripts/Makefile.package and scripts/package/install-extmod-build, or
> > maybe that people just have not tried building those packages with
> > bsdtar?
> 
> Precisely.  We focused on the one place which actually breaks our build,
> to avoid touching too many subsystems simultaneously.  If this is
> desirable, I can look into replacing the other instances.

Without further investigation, I think it makes sense to use the same
tar-instance for all tar calls.  Thus, I'd appreciate if you could replace
those as well.

Kind regards,
Nicolas

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