[PATCH 0/1] bitbake.conf: Add xz to HOSTTOOLS

[PATCH 0/1] bitbake.conf: Add xz to HOSTTOOLS

[liezhi.yang]

From: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>

The following changes since commit 249e42a02c412454cfed9d58e27a054dfa5d2b06:

  qemu: Remove deprecated asyncio calls in qmp python module (2025-07-28 17:35:16 +0100)

are available in the Git repository at:

  https://github.com/robertlinux/yocto rbt/xz
  https://github.com/robertlinux/yocto/tree/rbt/xz

Robert Yang (1):
  bitbake.conf: Add xz to HOSTTOOLS

 meta/conf/bitbake.conf | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

-- 
2.49.0

[PATCH 1/1] bitbake.conf: Add xz to HOSTTOOLS

[liezhi.yang]

From: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>

The uninative tarball requires xz to decompress:
WARNING: Disabling uninative as unable to install uninative tarball:
WARNING: tar (child): xz: Cannot exec: No such file or directory

Signed-off-by: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
---
 meta/conf/bitbake.conf | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
index b02459c18f..fb26e72669 100644
--- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
@@ -524,15 +524,12 @@ HOSTTOOLS += " \
     python3 pzstd ranlib readelf readlink realpath rm rmdir rpcgen sed seq sh \
     sha1sum sha224sum sha256sum sha384sum sha512sum \
     sleep sort split stat strings strip tail tar tee test touch tr true truncate uname \
-    uniq unzstd wc wget which xargs zstd \
+    uniq unzstd wc wget which xargs zstd xz \
 "
 
 # Tools needed to run testimage runtime image testing
 HOSTTOOLS += "${@'ip ping ps scp ssh stty' if (bb.utils.contains_any('IMAGE_CLASSES', 'testimage testsdk', True, False, d) or any(x in (d.getVar("BBINCLUDED") or "") for x in ["testimage.bbclass", "testsdk.bbclass"])) else ''}"
 
-# Used by archiver.bbclass when compression is xz
-HOSTTOOLS += "${@'xz' if (('archiver.bbclass' in (d.getVar('BBINCLUDED') or '')) and (d.getVarFlag('ARCHIVER_MODE', 'compression') == 'xz')) else ''}"
-
 # Link to these if present
 HOSTTOOLS_NONFATAL += "aws gcc-ar gpg gpg-agent ld.bfd ld.gold nc pigz sftp socat ssh sudo"
 
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2.49.0

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] bitbake.conf: Add xz to HOSTTOOLS

[Quentin Schulz]

Hi Robert,

On 7/29/25 10:03 AM, Robert Yang via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> From: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
> 
> The uninative tarball requires xz to decompress:
> WARNING: Disabling uninative as unable to install uninative tarball:
> WARNING: tar (child): xz: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
> 

Is this something we should be making uninative specific maybe? Maybe 
something like we did for ip, ping, ps, scp ,ssh, ssty which are added 
if e.g. testimage.bbclass is inherited?

> Signed-off-by: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
> ---
>   meta/conf/bitbake.conf | 5 +----
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> index b02459c18f..fb26e72669 100644
> --- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> +++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> @@ -524,15 +524,12 @@ HOSTTOOLS += " \
>       python3 pzstd ranlib readelf readlink realpath rm rmdir rpcgen sed seq sh \
>       sha1sum sha224sum sha256sum sha384sum sha512sum \
>       sleep sort split stat strings strip tail tar tee test touch tr true truncate uname \
> -    uniq unzstd wc wget which xargs zstd \
> +    uniq unzstd wc wget which xargs zstd xz \

I think we want this to stay alphabetically ordered?

Looks good to me otherwise. It seems we already have xz listed in the 
dependencies in the docs (almalinux, fedora, opensuse and ubuntu 
according to my git-grep :) ), so no update required on that front?

Cheers,
Quentin