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

["Yoann Congal" <yoann.congal@smile.fr>]

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.

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



>
> Thanks,
> Mathieu


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