diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
index 0681b4b7a2..139fbc4a03 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ PTESTS_SLOW = "\
     python3-cryptography-ptest \
     python3-ptest \
     strace-ptest \
+    tar-ptest \
     tcl-ptest \
     util-linux-ptest \
     valgrind-ptest \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar-1.34/run-ptest b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar-1.34/run-ptest
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9ca27153d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar-1.34/run-ptest
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Define tar test work dir
+WORKDIR=/usr/lib/tar/ptest/tests/
+
+# Run test
+cd ${WORKDIR}
+./atconfig ./atlocal ./testsuite
+
+./testsuite 2>&1 | grep -E '[0-9]{1,3}: ' | sed -e 's/^.....//' -e '/[ok]$/s/^/PASS: /;/FAILED (.*)/s/^/FAIL: /;/skipped (.*)/s/^/SKIP: /;/expected failure/ s/^/PASS: /;/UNEXPECTED PASS/s/^/FAIL: /' -e 's/ok$//g' -e 's/FAILED.*//g' -e 's/skipped.*//g' -e 's/expected failure.*//g' -e 's/UNEXPECTED PASS.*//g'
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.34.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.34.bb
index 7307cd57a2..ce319f6e7a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.34.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/tar/tar_1.34.bb
@@ -6,11 +6,13 @@ SECTION = "base"
 LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 
-SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/tar/tar-${PV}.tar.bz2"
+SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/tar/tar-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
+           file://run-ptest \
+"
 
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "b44cc67f8a1f6b0250b7c860e952b37e8ed932a90bd9b1862a511079255646ff"
 
-inherit autotools gettext texinfo
+inherit autotools gettext texinfo ptest
 
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
 PACKAGECONFIG:append:class-target = " ${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'acl', d)}"
@@ -42,6 +44,31 @@ do_install:append:class-target() {
     fi
 }
 
+# Tar testsuite would generate some small tests that are bash
+# scripts, so set ptest dependency to bash
+
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "bash"
+
+do_compile_ptest() {
+    oe_runmake -C ${B}/gnu/ check
+    oe_runmake -C ${B}/lib/ check
+    oe_runmake -C ${B}/rmt/ check
+    oe_runmake -C ${B}/src/ check
+    oe_runmake -C ${B}/tests/ genfile checkseekhole ckmtime
+}
+
+do_install_ptest() {
+    install -d ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/
+    sed -i "/abs_/d" ${B}/tests/atconfig
+    install --mode=755 ${B}/tests/atconfig ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/
+    sed -i "s%${B}/../tar-1.34.build-aux:%%g" ${B}/tests/atlocal
+    install --mode=755 ${B}/tests/atlocal ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/
+    install --mode=755 ${B}/tests/genfile ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/
+    install --mode=755 ${B}/tests/checkseekhole ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/
+    install --mode=755 ${B}/tests/ckmtime ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/
+    install --mode=755 ${S}/tests/testsuite ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/
+}
+
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-rmt"
 
 FILES:${PN}-rmt = "${sbindir}/rmt*"