On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 11:12:54AM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Source: libarchive > Version: 3.7.2-2 > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-m...@lists.debian.org, ty...@mit.edu > Control: affects -1 src:e2fsprogs > > the upload of e2fsprogs 1.47.1~rc1-1 to unstable yesterday uses a new > feature where libarchive is used to create filesystem images from > tarballs. This works on all architectures (main as well as ports) except > on mips64el: > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=e2fsprogs > > I attached a minimal reproducer.
Thanks Johannes for doing the root cause analysis and coming up with the minimal reproducer! Please note that I am preparing to upload a new release of e2fsprogs with qthe following workaround (see attached) so that e2fsprogs will at least build on mips64el instead of FTBFS due to the rergression test failure. With this workaround, attempts to run mke2fs -d foo.tar will fail (but only on mips64el): (sid_mips64el-dchroot)tytso@eberlin:~/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs$ ./debian/BUILD-STD/misc/mke2fs -t ext4 -d foo.tar -Fq foo.img 1G __populate_fs_from_tar: you need to compile e2fsprogs with libarchive to be able to process tarballs mke2fs: Operation not permitted while populating file system The build log which shows the failure without this work around can be found here: https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=e2fsprogs&arch=mips64el&ver=1.47.1%7Erc1-1&stamp=1714294103&raw=0 Cheers, - Ted commit 018cd6e9a659917ac1374775f5a60b1cf0be182c Author: Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> Date: Mon Apr 29 16:31:14 2024 -0400 debian: don't build with libarchive on mips64el The libarchive functionality in "mke2fs -d foo.tar" is breaking the regression test[1]. Since this is working everywhere _except_ mips64el, as a short-term workaround disable libarchive support on this platform until it can be fixed. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1070042 Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules index 6e98d9150..12dd56acc 100755 --- a/debian/rules +++ b/debian/rules @@ -61,6 +61,11 @@ CC ?= $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)-gcc COMMON_CONF_FLAGS += --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) endif +# work around Debian Bug #1070042 +ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH),mips64el) +COMMON_CONF_FLAGS += --without-libarchive +endif + %: dh $@ -B${stdbuilddir}
