Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] sanity: Require tar 1.35 or later on rhel9-alike distros

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sat, 2026-04-04 at 07:55 +0200, Mathieu Dubois-Briand via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> On Fri Apr 3, 2026 at 7:07 PM CEST, Yoann Congal via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> > On Fri Apr 3, 2026 at 6:47 PM CEST, Mathieu Dubois-Briand via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> > > On Fri Apr 3, 2026 at 1:54 PM CEST, Paul Barker wrote:
> > > > tar 1.34 (and possibly earlier versions) is unable to extract tarballs
> > > > containing read-only files with xattrs. This was fixed upstream, but
> > > > it's unlikely at this point that the fix will be backported to RHEL9
> > > > related distros (CentOS Stream 9, AlmaLinux 9, Rocky Linux 9). The issue
> > > > affects these distros specifically because they have selinux enabled by
> > > > default and this uses xattrs.
> > > > 
> > > > The specific failure we've seen is with the /usr/lib/udev/hwdb.bin file
> > > > installed by the systemd recipe - this file is chmod 0444. This leads to
> > > > the following error, typically during do_image_wic (shortened and split
> > > > to make it readable):
> > > > 
> > > >     subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command
> > > >     'tar --xattrs --xattrs-include='*' -cf - -S -C .../tmp/work/qemux86_64-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0/rootfs -p . |
> > > >     tar --xattrs --xattrs-include='*' -xf - -C .../tmp/work/qemux86_64-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0/tmp-wic/rootfs2'
> > > >     returned non-zero exit status 2.
> > > > 
> > > > That error message is likely to confuse users, and the fix is not
> > > > obvious. So, error out if tar 1.34 or earlier is present on affected
> > > > distros and recommend upgrading or using the buildtools tarball.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul@pbarker.dev>
> > > 
> > > Hi Paul,
> > > 
> > > So now, this is failing on several workers. Aren't we using buildtools
> > > on rocky9 / stream9?
> > You're thinking of "[PATCH yocto-autobuilder-helper] config.json: Use buildtools on RHEL9 derivatives"
> > https://lore.kernel.org/yocto-patches/20260331-rhel9-v1-1-e5c2cf815386@pbarker.dev/T/#u
> > ... not merged, yet.
> > 
> 
> Thanks! For some reason I thought it was merged.

Since we've now proven the sanity test works, I've merged the helper patch.

Cheers,

Richard