[OE-core] Nasty tar breakage

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Jack,

On Friday 11 October 2013 16:21:46 Jack Mitchell wrote:
> I upgraded my host distribution today which pulled in tar 1.27 [1] and
> caused a nasty breakage. Downgrading to tar 1.26 fixed the problem, I
> would expect this is something we want to fix before 1.5 goes out the door?

I think this has unfortunately come up too late for 1.5. If we get the fix in 
master it could go into a 1.5.1 point release however.
 
> DEBUG: Executing python function sstate_task_prefunc
> DEBUG: Python function sstate_task_prefunc finished
> DEBUG: Executing python function do_populate_sysroot
> DEBUG: Executing shell function sysroot_stage_all
> tar: --same-order option cannot be used with -c
> Try 'tar --help' or 'tar --usage' for more information.
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
> WARNING:
> /home/jack/Work/oe-core.git/test-build/tmp-eglibc/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-na
> tive/0.60-r0/temp/run.sysroot_stage_all.21827:1 exit 2 from
>   tar -xf - -C "$dest"
> DEBUG: Python function do_populate_sysroot finished
> ERROR: Function failed: sysroot_stage_all (log file is located at
> /home/jack/Work/oe-core.git/test-build/tmp-eglibc/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-na
> tive/0.60-r0/temp/log.do_populate_sysroot.21827)
> 
> [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2013-10/msg00004.html

Could you please file a bug for this so we can track the issue?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre