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Hafting

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Registered: 2014-05-03

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yay/bsdtar fail to unpack packages, preventing upgrades

$ yay -S linux-cachyos  #Or many other AUR packages
...
-> Extracting linux-6.8.3.tar.xz with bsdtar
linux-6.8.3/Documentation/Changes: Can't set permissions to 0755: Invalid argument
[many more such permission failures]
bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
==> ERROR: Failed to extract linux-6.8.3.tar.xz
    Aborting...
-> error making: linux-cachyos-exit status 1
-> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required:
linux-cachyos - exit status 1

I hope this is the right forum, I cannot figure this out. If I run bsdtar manually, the file unpacks with the same error messages. bsdtar apparently tries to change permissions of symlinks, which fails. Then makepkg and yay aborts.

Everything seems to extract as it is should, despite error messages. I can run makepkg --noextract -i , and build & install a working package manually. But no automation - if bsdtar is needed and there are symlinks being unpacked, then bsdtar claims bogus errors, which breaks makepkg.

I don't know where to report an error. Is bsdtar (from libarchive) wrong?  Or is it being used wrongly by makepkg?  Or just some stupid mistake in my local setup?  Ir'd be nice being able to run "yay -Sya" again, instead of cloning each repository at a time, running a makepkg that "fails", and then a makepkg --noextract that works.

WorMzy

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Re: yay/bsdtar fail to unpack packages, preventing upgrades

What filesystem are you running this on? How is it mounted?

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