[OE-core] Nasty tar breakage

[Mark Hatle]

On 10/11/13 10:55 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> 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.

Workaround would be to use the buildtools-tarball, since it includes tar.

I'd suggest this be documented as a workaround until we can get the patch in for 
1.5.1.

--Mark

>> 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
>