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 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.

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Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
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