If a the number of hard links decreases or increases while creating the tar files used for an ipk package, tar fails with error code 1: | DEBUG: Executing python function do_package_ipk | tar: ./usr/src/debug/gperf/3.0.4-r0/gperf-3.0.4/src/main.cc: file changed as we read it NOTE: recipe gperf-3.0.4-r0: task do_package_write_ipk: Failed ERROR: Task 6539 (recipes-extended/gperf/gperf_3.0.4.bb, do_package_write_ipk) failed with exit code '1' We detect if the error code produced by tar is 1 and in this case ignore it. This a similar behavior to the one on dpkg: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=40731942515ec8d80c727ad561174986d4f05818 Upsteam-Status: Inappropriate Signed-off-by: Alejandro Hernandez Index: git/opkg-build =================================================================== --- git.orig/opkg-build +++ git/opkg-build @@ -250,8 +250,21 @@ tmp_dir=$dest_dir/IPKG_BUILD.$$ mkdir $tmp_dir echo $CONTROL > $tmp_dir/tarX -( cd $pkg_dir && tar $ogargs -X $tmp_dir/tarX -cz $tarformat -f $tmp_dir/data.tar.gz . ) -( cd $pkg_dir/$CONTROL && tar $ogargs -cz $tarformat -f $tmp_dir/control.tar.gz . ) + + +# Ignore error code 1, caused by modifying the number of hard links while creating the tar file +rc=0 +( cd $pkg_dir && tar $ogargs -X $tmp_dir/tarX -cz $tarformat -f $tmp_dir/data.tar.gz . ) || rc=$? +if [[ $rc -ne 1 ]] && [[ $rc -ne 0 ]] ;then + exit $rc +fi + +rc=0 +( cd $pkg_dir/$CONTROL && tar $ogargs -cz $tarformat -f $tmp_dir/control.tar.gz . ) || rc=$? +if [[ $rc -ne 1 ]] && [[ $rc -ne 0 ]] ;then + exit $rc +fi + rm $tmp_dir/tarX echo "2.0" > $tmp_dir/debian-binary