diff --git a/archiver/tar/tar-0001-fix-build-failure.patch b/archiver/tar/tar-0001-fix-build-failure.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 36c6b3e39..000000000
--- a/archiver/tar/tar-0001-fix-build-failure.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
-# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
-# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
-#
-# Filename: package/.../tar/tar-0001-fix-build-failure.patch
-# Copyright (C) 2015 The OpenSDE Project
-#
-# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
-#
-# This patch file is dual-licensed. It is available under the license the
-# patched project is licensed under, as long as it is an OpenSource license
-# as defined at http://www.opensource.org/ (e.g. BSD, X11) or under the terms
-# of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
-# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
-# version.
-# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
-
-From e9ddc08da0982f36581ae5a8c7763453ff41cfe8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org>
-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 21:22:16 +0000
-Subject: Bugfixes.
-
-* doc/tar.1: Fix typo in font spec.
-* src/tar.c (sort_mode_arg, sort_mode_flag): Protect "inode"
-(SAVEDIR_SORT_INODE) with D_INO_IN_DIRENT
----
-diff --git a/doc/tar.1 b/doc/tar.1
-index 9000627..b91de63 100644
---- a/doc/tar.1
-+++ b/doc/tar.1
-@@ -879,7 +879,7 @@ Exclude files matching patterns listed in FILE.
- \fB\-\-strip\-components\fR=\fINUMBER\fR
- Strip \fINUMBER\fR leading components from file names on extraction.
- .TP
--\fB\-\-transform\fR=\fIEXPRESSION\dR, \fB\-\-xform\fR=\fIEXPRESSION\fR
-+\fB\-\-transform\fR=\fIEXPRESSION\fR, \fB\-\-xform\fR=\fIEXPRESSION\fR
- Use sed replace \fIEXPRESSION\fR to transform file names.
- .SS File name matching options
- These options affect both exclude and include patterns.
-diff --git a/src/tar.c b/src/tar.c
-index 225c624..f8102e0 100644
---- a/src/tar.c
-+++ b/src/tar.c
-@@ -1341,14 +1341,18 @@ static char filename_terminator;
- static char const *const sort_mode_arg[] = {
-   "none",
-   "name",
-+#if D_INO_IN_DIRENT
-   "inode",
-+#endif
-   NULL
- };
- 
- static int sort_mode_flag[] = {
-     SAVEDIR_SORT_NONE,
-     SAVEDIR_SORT_NAME,
-+#if D_INO_IN_DIRENT
-     SAVEDIR_SORT_INODE
-+#endif
- };
- 
- ARGMATCH_VERIFY (sort_mode_arg, sort_mode_flag);
---
-cgit v0.9.0.2
diff --git a/archiver/tar/tar.desc b/archiver/tar/tar.desc
index d18be8056..3bd2d0a2d 100644
--- a/archiver/tar/tar.desc
+++ b/archiver/tar/tar.desc
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 [COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 [COPY]
 [COPY] Filename: package/.../tar/tar.desc
-[COPY] Copyright (C) 2006 - 2014 The OpenSDE Project
+[COPY] Copyright (C) 2006 - 2017 The OpenSDE Project
 [COPY] Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project
 [COPY] Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf
 [COPY]
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 1.28
+[V] 1.29
 [P] X 01---5---9 108.300
 
-[D] 2523647134 tar-1.28.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/
+[D] 914250928 tar-1.29.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/