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

[Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>]

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
> f8d94++c4e403c 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
> 
> Can you please take a look and advise?
> 
> Regards,
> Tariq
> 
> [root@c-237-113-200-203 linux]# make -j24 rpm-pkg
> sh ./scripts/package/mkspec >./kernel.spec
> rpmbuild  --target x86_64-linux -bs kernel.spec \
> --define='_smp_mflags %{nil}' --define='_sourcedir rpmbuild/SOURCES'
> --define='_srcrpmdir .'
> Building target platforms: x86_64-linux
> Building for target x86_64-linux
> Wrote: ./kernel-6.3.0_rc7+-1.src.rpm
> rpmbuild  --target x86_64-linux -rb kernel-6.3.0_rc7+-1.src.rpm \
> --define='_smp_mflags %{nil}'
> Installing kernel-6.3.0_rc7+-1.src.rpm
> Building target platforms: x86_64-linux
> Building for target x86_64-linux
> Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.yDFEga
> + umask 022
> + cd /root/rpmbuild/BUILD
> + cd /root/rpmbuild/BUILD
> + rm -rf linux
> + /usr/bin/gzip -dc /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/linux.tar.gz
> + /usr/bin/tar -xof -
> + STATUS=0
> + '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
> + cd linux
> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.yDFEga: line 37: cd: linux: No such file or directory
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.yDFEga (%prep)
> 
> 
> 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/

Kind regards,
Nicolas