Is it possible to find a repository that hold a newer version of tar. The current version is 1.26 I have some students trying to build Yocto project on my Centos 7 host, but OpenEmbedded reports incompatibility problems with the current version of tar. I thank you on beforehand for any help. |< -- Med venlig hilsen Klaus Kolle Teknikumingeni?r, B.Sc.EE., e-mail : klaus at kolle.dk Master of IT www : www.kolle.dk Asger Jorns Vej 17 Telephone : +4522216044 DK-8600 Silkeborg, Denmark "Man skal ikke tilskrive til sammensv?rgelser hvad der tilstr?kkeligt kan forklares af inkompetence" Poul Henning Kamp Planl?gning er tanker om noget man agter at g?re en gang i fremtiden, hvis omst?ndighederne tillader det. Klaus Kolle 2006 Perfection is achieved not when nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 488 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20200916/e7e7218f/attachment.sig>
I have no idea what 'Yocto' is, but CentOS 7 includes two other tar utilities: 'bsdtar' and 'star' Maybe one of those will give you what you need? James Pearson ________________________________________ From: CentOS <centos-bounces at centos.org> on behalf of Klaus Kolle <klaus at kolle.dk> Sent: 16 September 2020 12:13 To: centos at centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Newer versoin of tar 1.26 on Centos 7 Is it possible to find a repository that hold a newer version of tar. The current version is 1.26 I have some students trying to build Yocto project on my Centos 7 host, but OpenEmbedded reports incompatibility problems with the current version of tar. I thank you on beforehand for any help. |< -- Med venlig hilsen Klaus Kolle Teknikumingeni?r, B.Sc.EE., e-mail : klaus at kolle.dk Master of IT www : www.kolle.dk Asger Jorns Vej 17 Telephone : +4522216044 DK-8600 Silkeborg, Denmark "Man skal ikke tilskrive til sammensv?rgelser hvad der tilstr?kkeligt kan forklares af inkompetence" Poul Henning Kamp Planl?gning er tanker om noget man agter at g?re en gang i fremtiden, hvis omst?ndighederne tillader det. Klaus Kolle 2006 Perfection is achieved not when nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Hi James On 16.09.2020 14.13, James Pearson wrote:> I have no idea what 'Yocto' is, but CentOS 7 includes two other tar utilities: 'bsdtar' and 'star'Yocto is for building custom Linux distributions. It builds on OpenEmbedded.> > Maybe one of those will give you what you need?I'll give it at try.> > James PearsonThanks for your reply. |< -- Med venlig hilsen Klaus Kolle Teknikumingeni?r, B.Sc.EE., e-mail : klaus at kolle.dk Master of IT www : www.kolle.dk Asger Jorns Vej 17 Telephone : +4522216044 DK-8600 Silkeborg, Denmark "Man skal ikke tilskrive til sammensv?rgelser hvad der tilstr?kkeligt kan forklares af inkompetence" Poul Henning Kamp Planl?gning er tanker om noget man agter at g?re en gang i fremtiden, hvis omst?ndighederne tillader det. Klaus Kolle 2006 Perfection is achieved not when nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 488 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20200916/19b60e14/attachment.sig>
Hello Klaus, On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:13:57 +0200 Klaus Kolle <klaus at kolle.dk> wrote:> Is it possible to find a repository that hold a newer version of tar. > The current version is 1.26 > > I have some students trying to build Yocto project on my Centos 7 host, > but OpenEmbedded reports incompatibility problems with the current > version of tar. > > I thank you on beforehand for any help.On the other side, building tar from the (latest) sources is quite easy. That's what I'd do. Regards, -- wwp https://useplaintext.email/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20200916/c8e8bd02/attachment.sig>