[OE-core] Nasty tar breakage

[Jack Mitchell]

On 11/10/13 17:08, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 16:21 +0100, 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?
>>
>> 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-native/0.60-r0/temp/run.sysroot_stage_all.21827:1
>> exit 2 from
>>   tar -xf - -C "$dest"
>> DEBUG: Python function do_populate_sysroot finished
>> ERROR: Function failed: sysroot_stage_all (log file is located at
>> /home/jack/Work/oe-core.git/test-build/tmp-eglibc/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.60-r0/temp/log.do_populate_sysroot.21827)
>>
>> [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2013-10/msg00004.html
> Just to be clear, the command is:
>
> tar -cf - -C "$src" -ps . | tar -xf - -C "$dest"
>
> from staging.bbclass. The fix is probably just to drop the s from the
> -ps.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>

I'm afraid that doesn't work:

Exception: CalledProcessError: Command 'cd
/home/jack/Work/oe-core.git/test-build/tmp-eglibc/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.60-r0/sysroot-destdir/home/jack/Work/oe-core.git/test-build/tmp-eglibc/sysroots/x86_64-linux;
find . -type d -print | tar -cf - -C
/home/jack/Work/oe-core.git/test-build/tmp-eglibc/work/x86_64-linux/quilt-native/0.60-r0/sysroot-destdir/home/jack/Work/oe-core.git/test-build/tmp-eglibc/sysroots/x86_64-linux
-ps --files-from - | tar -xf - -C
/home/jack/Work/oe-core.git/test-build/tmp-eglibc/sysroots/x86_64-linux'
returned non-zero exit status 2 with output 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
find: `standard output': Broken pipe
find: write error

Tar command in staging.bbclass

tar -cf - -C "$src" -p . | tar -xf - -C "$dest"