[JENKINS-12630] Solaris tar does not support gzip (z option)

Jenkins is trying to deploy a new JDK onto a slave and is using a GNU-extension to tar which gunzips tarfiles on the fly:

Building remotely on despina in workspace /export/home/hudson/workspace/xunit

Installing JDK jdk-7-oth-JPR

Downloading JDK from http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7/jdk-7-solaris-sparcv9.tar.gz

Downloading 12979380bytes

Installing /export/home/hudson/tools/JRE/jdk.sh

[JRE] $ tar xvzf /export/home/hudson/tools/JRE/jdk.sh

tar: z: unknown function modifier

Usage: tar

{c|r|t|u|x}

[BDeEFhilmnopPqTvw@[0-7]][bfk][X...] [blocksize] [tarfile] [size] [exclude-file...]

{file | -I include-file | -C directory file}

...

ERROR: Failed to install JDK. Exit code=1

Finished: FAILURE

The correct way to unpack this tarfile for Solaris (or any POSIX machine) is "gunzip -c /export/home/hudson/tools/JRE/jdk.sh | tar -xvf -"

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Originally reported by flub, imported from: Solaris tar does not support gzip (z option)

• assignee: flub
  
• status: Open
  
• priority: Major
  
• component(s): slave-setup-plugin
  
• resolution: Unresolved
  
• votes: 4
  
• watchers: 3
  
• imported: 20251216-225446
  

Raw content of original issue

Jenkins is trying to deploy a new JDK onto a slave and is using a GNU-extension to tar which gunzips tarfiles on the fly:


Building remotely on despina in workspace /export/home/hudson/workspace/xunit

Installing JDK jdk-7-oth-JPR

Downloading JDK from http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7/jdk-7-solaris-sparcv9.tar.gz

Downloading 12979380bytes

Installing /export/home/hudson/tools/JRE/jdk.sh

[JRE] $ tar xvzf /export/home/hudson/tools/JRE/jdk.sh

tar: z: unknown function modifier

Usage: tar 

{c|r|t|u|x}

[BDeEFhilmnopPqTvw@[0-7]][bfk][X...] [blocksize] [tarfile] [size] [exclude-file...] 

{file | -I include-file | -C directory file}

...

ERROR: Failed to install JDK. Exit code=1

Finished: FAILURE


The correct way to unpack this tarfile for Solaris (or any POSIX machine) is "gunzip -c /export/home/hudson/tools/JRE/jdk.sh | tar -xvf -"

• environment: Solaris 10