Post cache not working on alpine runners
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Description
I'm reopening an issue because the old one was closed, but the issue still exists : https://github.com/actions/cache/issues/352
Running this action in an alpine container results in this error :
/bin/tar: unrecognized option: P
BusyBox v1.31.1 () multi-call binary.
Usage: tar c|x|t [-ZzJjahmvokO] [-f TARFILE] [-C DIR] [-T FILE] [-X FILE] [--exclude PATTERN]... [FILE]...
Create, extract, or list files from a tar file
c Create
x Extract
t List
-f FILE Name of TARFILE ('-' for stdin/out)
-C DIR Change to DIR before operation
-v Verbose
-O Extract to stdout
-m Don't restore mtime
-o Don't restore user:group
-k Don't replace existing files
-Z (De)compress using compress
-z (De)compress using gzip
-J (De)compress using xz
-j (De)compress using bzip2
-a (De)compress using lzma
-h Follow symlinks
-T FILE File with names to include
-X FILE File with glob patterns to exclude
--exclude PATTERN Glob pattern to exclude
[warning]Tar failed with error: The process '/bin/tar' failed with exit code 1
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the cache action inside an Alpine runner and inspect the tar command that fails. Done means cache save and restore work with Alpine's BusyBox tar without the reported option error.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- ci-cd
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 50/100