support/dependencies: drop check for maximal tar version
authorYann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Mon, 28 Sep 2020 21:16:50 +0000 (23:16 +0200)
committerYann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:06:58 +0000 (22:06 +0100)
commitec50e407befe50ef605873dd6d113790e7e6126b
tree213676ca8f32ea2e80be4fabfd3f7d93a78e7144
parentc043ecb20ce6ac316fe31da6d2db5b13a34dc414
support/dependencies: drop check for maximal tar version

So far, we checked that the tar present on the host was at most tar
1.29, because tar 1.30 changed the way it generates archives.

Having a maximum tar version requirement meant that we would eventually
always have to build our own host-tar, as distributions are updating
the version they use.

But now, we have found a way to generate reproducible archives starting
with tar 1.27 onward, so we no longer need the check for a maximum tar
version, so we can drop that requirement.

Note: this is semantically a revert of b8fa273d500b (check-host-tar.sh:
blacklist tar 1.30+), but keeping the new, mostly-linear code-path.

Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Vincent Fazio <vfazio@xes-inc.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Fazio <vfazio@xes-inc.com>
support/dependencies/check-host-tar.sh