[gentoo-releng] Avoid packaging stages w/ tar-1.13.92

[gentoo-releng] Avoid packaging stages w/ tar-1.13.92

[Kumba]

I thought I pass a little bit of recently accquired knowldge onto this 
list, and that is to make sure any machines release managers or arch 
leads are using to compile stages with do not use tar-1.13.92* for 
packaging the stages.

Whether this error I have will be reproducable on other arches is 
unknown, but my experience taught me that busybox-01.00pre5 and 1.00pre6 
will not unpack a stage built with this version.

/gentoo # tar x -f stage1-mips4-20040131.tar
tar: Couldnt remove old file: Is a directory
(same applies if the stageball is bzip2'ed and one passes -j to 
busybox's tar).

Anyone got ideas on the causes of this?


--Kumba

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Re: [gentoo-releng] Avoid packaging stages w/ tar-1.13.92

[Kumba]

Martin Schlemmer wrote:

> What version of tar?  tar-1.13.92-r3 should fix a ailing that might
> cause your problem ...

When I checked the version on one of my Indys (which packaged up these 
stageballs), it reported tar 1.13.92.  Considering -r3 is the only 
version in portage, this must have been this very version.

My x86 box (finally back online) has tar 1.13.25, and when I unpacked 
the stages and re-packed them with 1.13.25, they worked fine on the 
netboot (Which I'm testing and installing on a second Indy).


--Kumba

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small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are 
elsewhere."  --Elrond


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Re: [gentoo-releng] Avoid packaging stages w/ tar-1.13.92

[Kumba]

Martin Schlemmer wrote:

> Is that stages with issues online ?

I already replaced them with the re-packaged versions off my x86 but I 
just uploaded one of the original stage1's off my Indy.

http://dev.gentoo.org/~kumba/tmp/stage1-mips4-20040131.tar.bz2

The offending stage1 has this md5sum:

c37d214817666cf6d161112dcaf41caf  stage1-mips4-20040131.tar.bz2

The working one:

d1d4e40e75fc0c87a2c4a6e4d3d822a5  stage1-mips4-20040131.tar.bz2


--Kumba

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small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are 
elsewhere."  --Elrond


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Re: [gentoo-releng] Avoid packaging stages w/ tar-1.13.92

[Kumba]

Martin Schlemmer wrote:

> Works fine here:
> 
> --
> azarah@nosferatu stage $ sudo tar -jxpf ../stage1-mips4-20040131.tar.bz2
> azarah@nosferatu stage $ tar --version
> tar (GNU tar) 1.13.92
> Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License;
> see the file named COPYING for details.
> Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
> azarah@nosferatu stage $ epm -q tar
> tar-1.13.92-r3
> azarah@nosferatu stage $ md5sum ../stage1-mips4-20040131.tar.bz2
> c37d214817666cf6d161112dcaf41caf  ../stage1-mips4-20040131.tar.bz2
> azarah@nosferatu stage $
> --

Yeah, they work fine with GNU Tar, but not with the tar built into 
busybox-1.00pre5 and pre6.  Sparc and mips netboots use busybox, and if 
I'm not mistaken, the livecds use busybox as well, so this could be a 
possible problem in those cases.


--Kumba

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"Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: 
small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are 
elsewhere."  --Elrond


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