Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] systemtap: Upgrade 5.5 -> 5.6

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

On Sat, 2026-09-19 at 16:09 +0200, Jaipaul Cheernam via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> NEWS: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=systemtap.git;a=blob;f=NEWS;hb=release-5.6
> 
> - Clean up python2 support in recipe and clean up obsoloute patch
>   More details [1], [2]
> 
> - Added pip/wheel native to the python3-probes PACKAGECONFIG — the new build uses pip/wheel
> 
> - Added two patches to keep do_package_qa passing. The generated
>   tapset/python3.stpm recorded the recipe-sysroot path of libpython,
>   since it comes from sysconfig's LIBDIR and python3targetconfig points
>   that at ${STAGING_LIBDIR}; @cast module names are resolved verbatim
>   with no --sysroot translation, so that path also made python3 probes
>   unresolvable on the target. The pip-installed HelperSDT module shipped
>   __pycache__/*.pyc naming ${D} and a dist-info/direct_url.json naming
>   the wheel in ${B}, both artifacts of "pip install --root".
>   Reported upstream as PR34652 [3], patches posted to the systemtap
>   list [4].
> 
> [1] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=systemtap.git;a=commit;h=3c9c8a8163e0a9c77bf9a3a7f87ceaf2d3de98b5
> [2] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=systemtap.git;a=commit;h=55a0168613e765f6be5257b0c4fb97678292716f
> [3] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34652
> [4] https://inbox.sourceware.org/systemtap/20260919135744.78642-1-jaipaul.cheernam@est.tech/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jaipaul Cheernam <jaipaul.cheernam@est.tech>

I think there may be a reproducibilty issue in there:

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/37/builds/5022

https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/repro-fail/oe-reproducible-20260919-l3njlk0p/packages/diff-html/

Cheers,

Richard