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

["Mathieu Dubois-Briand" <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>]

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?

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/17/builds/3369
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/4/builds/3536

Thanks,
Mathieu

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Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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