Re: [PATCH -rc] kbuild: properly exclude linux.tar.gz from tar archive

[Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>]

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On Wed 15 Mar 2023 21:09:33 GMT, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
> 
> Attempt to build rpm-pkg randomly fails in tar stage, with same error
> as was reported by Nicolas [1]
> 
> tar -c -f linux.tar.gz -I pigz --exclude=./linux.tar.gz --exclude-from=.tmp_filelist_exclude --owner=0 --group=0 --sort=name --transform 's:^\.:linux:S' -C . .
> tar: .: file changed as we read it
> make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.package:58: linux.tar.gz] Error 1
> make[1]: *** Deleting file 'linux.tar.gz'
> make: *** [Makefile:1657: rpm-pkg] Error 2
> 
> The reason to it that tar is dependent on order of command line
> arguments and needs to have excluded file before creating it. So as a
> solution, touch that file to create it and move --exclude list before
> any tar arguments.

thanks for digging into and proposing a solution!  I'm afraid it will 
not be taken because of [2] will make the whole cmd_tar definition 
redundant due to the use of 'git archive'.

Nevertheless, this works for me.

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>

Kind regards,
Nicolas


[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kbuild/20230312200731.599706-7-masahiroy@kernel.org/

> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y%2Fk+v%2FYj8VQ6q32H@fjasle.eu/
> Cc: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
> Fixes: 7bf4582d7aad ("kbuild: deb-pkg: create source package without cleaning")
> Signed-off-by: Riad Abo Raed <riada@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  scripts/Makefile.package | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.package b/scripts/Makefile.package
> index b941e6341b36..be4623481ca2 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.package
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.package
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ filechk_filelist = \
>  # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  
>  quiet_cmd_tar = TAR     $@
> -      cmd_tar = tar -c -f $@ $(tar-compress-opt) $(tar-exclude-opt) \
> +      cmd_tar = touch ./$@ && tar $(tar-exclude-opt) -c -f $@ $(tar-compress-opt) \
>                  --owner=0 --group=0 --sort=name \
>                  --transform 's:^\.:$*:S' -C $(tar-rootdir) .
>  
> -- 
> 2.39.2

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