Hi, here's patch for the master branch as I'm not sure what is the roadmap for merging core-updates into master.
The obvious downside is that the update triggers large rebuild of core packages :-/ ---8<-------------cut here----------start------------>8---- [PATCH] gnu: tar: Update to 1.34. * gnu/package/base.scm (tar): Update to 1.34. diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm index ea2e102c15..6ebe30464e 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/base.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm @@ -179,14 +179,14 @@ (define-public sed (define-public tar (package (name "tar") - (version "1.32") + (version "1.34") (source (origin (method url-fetch) (uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/tar/tar-" version ".tar.xz")) (sha256 (base32 - "1n7xy657ii0sa42zx6944v2m4v9qrh6sqgmw17l3nch3y43sxlyh")) + "0a0x87anh9chbi2cgcyy7pmnm5hzk4yd1w2j8gm1wplwhwkbvgk3")) (patches (search-patches "tar-skip-unreliable-tests.patch" "tar-remove-wholesparse-check.patch")))) (build-system gnu-build-system) -- 2.33.1