Newer Versoin Of Tar 1.26 On CentOS 7

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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.

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3 thoughts on - Newer Versoin Of Tar 1.26 On CentOS 7

  • 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

  • Hi James

    Yocto is for building custom Linux distributions. It builds on OpenEmbedded.

    I’ll give it at try.

    Thanks for your reply.

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  • Hello Klaus,

    On the other side, building tar from the (latest) sources is quite easy. That’s what I’d do.

    Regards,