image_types: remove obsolete tar comment

We now depend on tar 1.28, so talking about older tar versions is just
confusing.

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass b/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
index 66884af8e09ab5ba9ec58618a14b28f9938c60d8..3ec321765d931d23df61a5010bc149cedb13d0c3 100644 (file)
--- a/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
@@ -108,16 +108,6 @@ IMAGE_CMD_squashfs-xz = "mksquashfs ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} ${IMGDEPLOYDIR}/${IMAGE_NAME
 IMAGE_CMD_squashfs-lzo = "mksquashfs ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} ${IMGDEPLOYDIR}/${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.squashfs-lzo ${EXTRA_IMAGECMD} -noappend -comp lzo"
 IMAGE_CMD_squashfs-lz4 = "mksquashfs ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} ${IMGDEPLOYDIR}/${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.squashfs-lz4 ${EXTRA_IMAGECMD} -noappend -comp lz4"
 
-# By default, tar from the host is used, which can be quite old. If
-# you need special parameters (like --xattrs) which are only supported
-# by GNU tar upstream >= 1.27, then override that default:
-# IMAGE_CMD_TAR = "tar --xattrs --xattrs-include=*"
-# do_image_tar[depends] += "tar-replacement-native:do_populate_sysroot"
-# EXTRANATIVEPATH += "tar-native"
-#
-# The GNU documentation does not specify whether --xattrs-include is necessary.
-# In practice, it turned out to be not needed when creating archives and
-# required when extracting, but it seems prudent to use it in both cases.
 IMAGE_CMD_TAR ?= "tar"
 # ignore return code 1 "file changed as we read it" as other tasks(e.g. do_image_wic) may be hardlinking rootfs
 IMAGE_CMD_tar = "${IMAGE_CMD_TAR} --numeric-owner -cf ${IMGDEPLOYDIR}/${IMAGE_NAME}${IMAGE_NAME_SUFFIX}.tar -C ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} . || [ $? -eq 1 ]"