sanity.bbclass: recommend using install-buildtools

For old tar version (< 1.28), recommend using
scripts/install-buildtools

Drop check for tar version 1.24. Dubious extra value.

(From OE-Core rev: 7a66434cf11b7f051699b774e4fccd6738351368)

Signed-off-by: Tim Orling <timothy.t.orling@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
index cca5cdad17..fef05fb012 100644
--- a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
@@ -532,10 +532,8 @@ def check_tar_version(sanity_data):
     except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
         return "Unable to execute tar --version, exit code %d\n%s\n" % (e.returncode, e.output)
     version = result.split()[3]
-    if LooseVersion(version) < LooseVersion("1.24"):
-        return "Your version of tar is older than 1.24 and has bugs which will break builds. Please install a newer version of tar (1.28+).\n"
     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 projects buildtools-tarball from our last release).\n"
+        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 projects buildtools-tarball from our last release or use scripts/install-buildtools).\n"
     return None
 
 # We use git parameters and functionality only found in 1.7.8 or later