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

[Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 09:18:08PM +0100, Nicolas Schier wrote:
> 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'.

OK, good to know.

> 
> Nevertheless, this works for me.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>

Thanks

> 
> 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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