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synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,337

"Can't update time for" errors in a chroot

This is in a chroot, a 32-bit Arch installation as the chroot and CentOS 5.4 as the host.

[max@nghs package-query]$ makepkg
==> Making package: package-query 0.3-2 (Sun Sep 12 06:01:23 UTC 2010)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
  -> Found package-query-0.3.tar.gz
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
    package-query-0.3.tar.gz ... Passed
==> Extracting Sources...
  -> Extracting package-query-0.3.tar.gz with bsdtar
package-query-0.3/: Can't update time for package-query-0.3
package-query-0.3/doc/: Can't update time for package-query-0.3/doc
package-query-0.3/Makefile: Can't update time for package-query-0.3/Makefile
package-query-0.3/src/: Can't update time for package-query-0.3/src
package-query-0.3/src/Makefile: Can't update time for package-query-0.3/src/Makefile
package-query-0.3/src/package-query.c: Can't update time for package-query-0.3/src/package-query.c
package-query-0.3/src/aur.h: Can't update time for package-query-0.3/src/aur.h
package-query-0.3/src/aur.c: Can't update time for package-query-0.3/src/aur.c
package-query-0.3/src/util.h: Can't update time for package-query-0.3/src/util.h
package-query-0.3/src/util.c: Can't update time for package-query-0.3/src/util.c
package-query-0.3/src/alpm-query.h: Can't update time for package-query-0.3/src/alpm-query.h
package-query-0.3/src/alpm-query.c: Can't update time for package-query-0.3/src/alpm-query.c
package-query-0.3/doc/Makefile: Can't update time for package-query-0.3/doc/Makefile
package-query-0.3/doc/package-query.8: Can't update time for package-query-0.3/doc/package-query.8
bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
==> ERROR: Failed to extract package-query-0.3.tar.gz
    Aborting...

/dev, /sys, and /proc are all mounted as --bind under the chroot's directory.  What could be causing the issue?  This server has 24 CPUs on it and I am ready to compile!

alecthomas

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Registered: 2005-08-11

Posts: 3

Re: "Can't update time for" errors in a chroot

I am having the same issue, but on a Linode slice, as is this person: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=70030

The culprit is (somehow) bsdtar. A workaround is to extract the sources manually to src/ then use makepkg --noextract.

alecthomas

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Registered: 2005-08-11

Posts: 3

Re: "Can't update time for" errors in a chroot

And another discussion here: http://www.mail-archive.com/crux-arm@cr … 00001.html