Changeset 83623 in vbox for trunk/src

Timestamp:

Apr 8, 2020 4:26:17 PM (5 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

svn:sync-xref-src-repo-rev:

137053

Message:

Validation Kit/testdriver: Explicitly set tarfile.GNU_FORMAT when creating tarballs, as with Python 3.8 the default format (tarfile.DEFAULT_FORMAT) has been changed to tarfile.PAX_FORMAT, which our extraction code (vts_tar) currently can't handle.

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/ValidationKit/testdriver/testfileset.py (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/VBox/ValidationKit/testdriver/testfileset.py

@@ -514 +514 @@
         # Open the tarball:
         try:
-            oTarFile = tarfile.open(sTarFileHst, 'w:gz');
+            # Make sure to explicitly set GNU_FORMAT here, as with Python 3.8 the default format (tarfile.DEFAULT_FORMAT)
+            # has been changed to tarfile.PAX_FORMAT, which our extraction code (vts_tar) currently can't handle.
+            ## @todo Remove tarfile.GNU_FORMAT and use tarfile.PAX_FORMAT as soon as we have PAX support.
+            oTarFile = tarfile.open(sTarFileHst, 'w:gz', format = tarfile.GNU_FORMAT);
         except:
             return reporter.errorXcpt('Failed to open new tar file: %s' % (sTarFileHst,));