From be2b48b9f3e56b672e391e18a09f2d5f4e78d74e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: fanquake <fanquake@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:59:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] test: allow overriding tar in get_previous_releases

Facilitate use on distros that might have 'tar' as something else, such
as 'gtar', i.e Chimera.
---
 test/get_previous_releases.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/test/get_previous_releases.py b/test/get_previous_releases.py
index e715c1c9877..4984c1b23e3 100755
--- a/test/get_previous_releases.py
+++ b/test/get_previous_releases.py
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ import time
 import urllib.request
 import zipfile
 
+TAR = os.getenv('TAR', 'tar')
+
 SHA256_SUMS = {
     "0e2819135366f150d9906e294b61dff58fd1996ebd26c2f8e979d6c0b7a79580": {"tag": "v0.14.3", "archive": "bitcoin-0.14.3-aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.gz"},
     "d86fc90824a85c38b25c8488115178d5785dbc975f5ff674f9f5716bc8ad6e65": {"tag": "v0.14.3", "archive": "bitcoin-0.14.3-arm-linux-gnueabihf.tar.gz"},
@@ -214,7 +216,7 @@ def download_binary(tag, args) -> int:
             print(f"Zip extraction failed: {e}", file=sys.stderr)
             return 1
     else:
-        ret = subprocess.run(['tar', '-zxf', archive, '-C', tag,
+        ret = subprocess.run([TAR, '-zxf', archive, '-C', tag,
                               '--strip-components=1',
                               'bitcoin-{tag}'.format(tag=tag[1:])]).returncode
         if ret != 0: