Re: Possible issue when supported distros update their GNU tar package to version 1.27

[Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>]

On 10/11/2013 05:09 AM, Yannis Damigos wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I work on Archlinux (64bit) and build a beagleboard image.
> Build Configuration:
> BB_VERSION        = "1.20.0"
> BUILD_SYS         = "x86_64-linux"
> NATIVELSBSTRING   = "Arch-Linux"
> TARGET_SYS        = "arm-poky-linux-gnueabi"
> MACHINE           = "beagleboard"
> DISTRO            = "poky"
> DISTRO_VERSION    = "1.5"
> TUNE_FEATURES     = "armv7a vfp neon"
> TARGET_FPU        = "vfp-neon"
> meta
> meta-yocto
> meta-yocto-bsp    = "master:102bf5e0f640fe85068452a42b85077f1c81e0c9"
>
> The build process stops at the task "quilt-native_0.60.bb, do_populate_sysroot"
> with the following error:
>      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
>
> Searching around I found out that the problem was found at the file
> meta/classes/staging.bbclass at line 16:
>      tar -cf - -C "$src" -ps . | tar -xf - -C "$dest"
>
> The issue comes up if user's distro is using  GNU tar version 1.27
> Here is a link to the tar patch that causing the problem:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=74ce228f6df956e6b7be9fd4f993bada4b7ea645
>
> If I downgrade the tar package to version 1.26, the build ends with success.
>

It's just a little too late to get this fixed for 1.5, we are in the 
middle of the final full pass test.  But you can also use the Buildtools 
SDK Tarball.

This was created for systems that don't have the correct versions of 
Python, Git, Tar and Make.  It can be downloaded from the following link:

https://www.yoctoproject.org/download/buildtools-sdk

Sau!

> Here is a list with all the files that should be updated/patched
> ./meta/lib/oe/path.py: cmd = 'tar -cf - -C %s -ps . | tar -xf - -C %s' % (src, dst)
> ./meta/lib/oe/path.py: cmd = 'cd %s; find . -type d -print | tar -cf - -C %s -ps --files-from - | tar -xf - -C %s' % (src, src, dst)
> ./meta/classes/package.bbclass: cmd = 'tar -cf - -C %s -ps . | tar -xf - -C %s' % (dest, dvar)
> ./meta/classes/populate_sdk_deb.bbclass: tar -cf - -C ${STAGING_ETCDIR_NATIVE} -ps apt | tar -xf - -C ${target_rootfs}/etc
> ./meta/classes/libc-package.bbclass: tar -cf - -C ${LOCALETREESRC}${datadir} -ps i18n | tar -xf - -C $treedir/${datadir}
> ./meta/classes/libc-package.bbclass: tar -cf - -C ${LOCALETREESRC}${base_libdir} -ps . | tar -xf - -C $treedir/${base_libdir}
> ./meta/classes/libc-package.bbclass: tar -cf - -C ${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}/${prefix_native}/${base_libdir} -ps libgcc_s.* | tar -xf - -C $treedir/${base_libdir}
> ./meta/classes/libc-package.bbclass: tar -cf - -C $treedir/$parent -ps $(basename ${localedir}) | tar -xf - -C ${PKGD}$parent
> ./meta/classes/staging.bbclass: tar -cf - -C "$src" -ps . | tar -xf - -C "$dest"
> ./bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/__init__.py: #cmd = 'tar -cf - -C "%d" -ps . | tar -xf - -C "%s/%s/"' % (file, rootdir, destdir)
>
> Best regards,
> Yannis
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