[OE-core] Nasty tar breakage

[Jack Mitchell]

On 11/10/13 22:47, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 17:15 +0100, Jack Mitchell wrote:
>> 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"
>
> I think this command got copy and pasted into a few parts of the system
> so we'll need to hunt them all down and fix them. In classes alone:
>
> $ grep \\-ps * -R
> libc-package.bbclass:	tar -cf - -C ${LOCALETREESRC}${datadir} -ps i18n | tar -xf - -C $treedir/${datadir}
> libc-package.bbclass:	tar -cf - -C ${LOCALETREESRC}${base_libdir} -ps . | tar -xf - -C $treedir/${base_libdir}
> libc-package.bbclass:		tar -cf - -C ${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}/${prefix_native}/${base_libdir} -ps libgcc_s.* | tar -xf - -C $treedir/${base_libdir}
> libc-package.bbclass:	tar -cf - -C $treedir/$parent -ps $(basename ${localedir}) | tar -xf - -C ${PKGD}$parent
> package.bbclass:    cmd = 'tar -cf - -C %s -ps . | tar -xf - -C %s' % (dest, dvar)
> populate_sdk_deb.bbclass:	tar -cf - -C ${STAGING_ETCDIR_NATIVE} -ps apt | tar -xf - -C ${target_rootfs}/etc
> staging.bbclass:		tar -cf - -C "$src" -ps . | tar -xf - -C "$dest"
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>

Ah ok, I did wonder but didn't have the time to check. I'll try to get 
round to eliminating all the occurances on Monday and if it works I'll 
put out an RFC with a view for 1.5.1.

Cheers,

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   Jack Mitchell (jack at embed.me.uk)
   Embedded Systems Engineer
   Cambrideshire, UK
   http://www.embed.me.uk
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