Re: [OE-core][PATCH v2] libarchive: ptest: run tests from tmpfs to avoid inode overflow failures

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

On Mon Jul 20, 2026 at 2:58 PM CEST, Pratik Farkase wrote:
> The bsdcpio_test odc/newc format tests verify archive headers byte-by-byte
> including inode and device numbers. On ext4 root filesystems (particularly
> qemuarm64 and qemuriscv64) inode numbers can exceed the odc 6-octal-digit
> or newc 8-hex-digit field widths, causing intermittent assertion failures
> in test_format_newc and test_option_c.
>
> Run all tests from a tmpfs working directory where inode numbers always
> start small, avoiding the overflow condition.
>
> [YOCTO #16231] : https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16231
>
> Signed-off-by: Pratik Farkase <pratik.farkase@est.tech>
> ---

Hi Pratik,

Thanks for the new version. It looks like we have some ptest failures
here:

Failed ptests:
{'libarchive': ['libarchive_test',
                'bsdtar_test',
                'bsdcpio_test',
                'bsdcat_test',
                'bsdunzip_test']}

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/73/builds/4107
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/61/builds/4091
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/56/builds/1981

Can you have a look at the issue?

Thanks,
Mathieu

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