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author | Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com> | 2022-10-28 16:23:53 +0100 |
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committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2022-10-29 16:23:27 +0100 |
commit | 7dd2b1cd1bb10e67485dab8600c0787df6c2eee7 (patch) | |
tree | 1aea31fbd75b4fa88eea176532ab24a43651121e /meta/classes-global/sanity.bbclass | |
parent | f10cdc155e47af5627ee999c57e1d083f9382a91 (diff) | |
download | openembedded-core-7dd2b1cd1bb10e67485dab8600c0787df6c2eee7.tar.gz |
sanity: check for GNU tar specifically
We need the system tar to be GNU tar, as we reply on --xattrs. Some
distributions may be using libarchive's tar binary, which is definitely
not as featureful, so check for this and abort early with a clear
message instead of later with mysterious errors.
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'meta/classes-global/sanity.bbclass')
-rw-r--r-- | meta/classes-global/sanity.bbclass | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/meta/classes-global/sanity.bbclass b/meta/classes-global/sanity.bbclass index 8394213b63..a52f2016cc 100644 --- a/meta/classes-global/sanity.bbclass +++ b/meta/classes-global/sanity.bbclass @@ -504,6 +504,14 @@ def check_tar_version(sanity_data): version = result.split()[3] if bb.utils.vercmp_string_op(version, "1.28", "<"): return "Your version of tar is older than 1.28 and does not have the support needed to enable reproducible builds. Please install a newer version of tar (you could use the project's buildtools-tarball from our last release or use scripts/install-buildtools).\n" + + try: + result = subprocess.check_output(["tar", "--help"], stderr=subprocess.STDOUT).decode('utf-8') + if "--xattrs" not in result: + return "Your tar doesn't support --xattrs, please use GNU tar.\n" + except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e: + return "Unable to execute tar --help, exit code %d\n%s\n" % (e.returncode, e.output) + return None # We use git parameters and functionality only found in 1.7.8 or later |