Re: [PATCH 3/3] kbuild: do not create intermediate *.tar for tar packages

[Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 11:06:06AM +0200, Nicolas Schier wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 11:54:34AM +0300, Tariq Toukan wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 07/04/2023 21:12, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 07:16:29PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > > > Commit 05e96e96a315 ("kbuild: use git-archive for source package
> > > > creation") split the compression as a separate step to factor out
> > > > the common build rules.
> > > > 
> > > > With the previous commit, we got back to the situation where
> > > > compressed source tarballs are created by a single rule.
> > > > There is no reason to keep the separate compression rules.
> > > > 
> > > > Generate the comressed tar packages directly.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
> > > 
> > > Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We started seeing the failure below in rc7.
> > We narrowed it down to your patches:
> > 
> > 3c65a2704cdd kbuild: do not create intermediate *.tar for tar packages
> > f8d94c4e403c kbuild: do not create intermediate *.tar for source tarballs
> > f6d8283549bc kbuild: merge cmd_archive_linux and cmd_archive_perf
> > aa7d233f45b4 kbuild: give up untracked files for source package builds

<...>

> > RPM build errors:
> >     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.yDFEga (%prep)
> > make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.package:69: rpm-pkg] Error 1
> > make: *** [Makefile:1656: rpm-pkg] Error 2
> 
> Thanks for the report.  It should/will be fixed with 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kbuild/20230419170424.78688-1-masahiroy@kernel.org/

Thanks for the prompt response.

I have a general question, why commits listed by Tariq were not delayed to merge window?

Only one of them has Fixes line, but even that patch doesn't talk about
error, but code refactoring "To simplify the code, ...".

Thanks

> 
> Kind regards,
> Nicolas