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.bur...@arm.com>
---
meta/classes-global/sanity.bbclass | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/meta/classes-global/sanity.bbclass
b/meta/classes-global/sanity.bbclass
index 15067e78d3c..606444cae18 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
--
2.34.1
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