# catalyst -f stage3.spec ... 15 Sep 2020 04:15:53 MSK: NOTICE : Creating stage tarball... mode: pixz_x NOTICE:catalyst:Creating stage tarball... mode: pixz_x /bin/sh: pixz: command not found tar: /var/tmp/catalyst/builds/default/stage3-amd64-2020.09.tar.xz: Cannot write: Broken pipe tar: Child returned status 127 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Reproducible: Always
do you mean dev-util/catalyst? Perhaps a missing dependency on app-arch/pixz is app-arch/pixz installed?
If you use a spec with pixz_x compression type, you need to install pixz. I'm really not sure we need a dep here.
> do you mean dev-util/catalyst? Yes. # emerge -pv catalyst These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] dev-util/catalyst-3.0.12::gentoo USE="iso -ccache -doc -system-bootloader" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_7 -python3_6 -python3_8" 0 KiB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB
> Perhaps a missing dependency on app-arch/pixz Yes. > is app-arch/pixz installed? No.
Yes, as a catalyst user, you need to ensure you have the compression apps installed if you wish to use them in catalyst. Creating use flags just to install optional dependencies is frowned upon. Catalyst uses the pyDecomp pkg which has capability of using many different (de)compression applications.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=f8465671cfe9352d37a65530cb46e7f9b99ef599 commit f8465671cfe9352d37a65530cb46e7f9b99ef599 Author: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-10-08 20:43:26 +0000 Commit: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-10-08 21:06:07 +0000 dev-util/catalyst: Add dependency on app-arch/pixz pixz is not a required dependency, strictly speaking, but it's commonly used in .spec files and is an extremely small dependency. Additionally, the failure mode if it's not available is to produce a 0-byte tar.xz file at the end of the build, which is not good. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/742569 Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> dev-util/catalyst/catalyst-9999.ebuild | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
