"Patch series format unknown" with mbox file
I am attempting to apply patches to our ClangBuiltLinux builds to help limit the number of failures that we have. In doing so, I have generated an mbox file like so:
$ git -C $CBL_SRC/linux format-patch --base=origin/master --stdout origin/master.. > patches/mainline.mbox
When I go to test this via TuxSuite's container (as that is what we run our CI out of), I get the following error:
$ podman run \
--volume=$HOME/.config/tuxsuite:/root/.config/tuxsuite \
--volume=$PWD:$PWD \
--workdir=$PWD \
docker.io/tuxsuite/tuxsuite \
tuxsuite build \
--git-repo 'https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/' \
--git-ref master \
--target-arch arm \
--toolchain clang-13 \
--kconfig allmodconfig \
--kconfig CONFIG_WERROR=n \
--patch-series patches/mainline.mbox
Building Linux Kernel https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/ at master
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/tuxsuite", line 8, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tuxsuite/cli.py", line 939, in main
cli.main(prog_name="tuxsuite")
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1062, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1668, in invoke
return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1404, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 763, in invoke
return __callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tuxsuite/cli.py", line 448, in wrapper
return f(**kw)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tuxsuite/cli.py", line 510, in build
build.build()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tuxsuite/build.py", line 234, in build
build_entry, patch = self.generate_build_request(plan=plan)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tuxsuite/build.py", line 213, in generate_build_request
) = handle_patch(self.patch_series)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/tuxsuite/build.py", line 89, in handle_patch
raise Exception("Patch series format unknown")
Exception: Patch series format unknown
This appears to be something with Debian's python3
, as Arch Linux does not appear to have this issue.
$ podman run --rm -ti --volume=$PWD:$PWD --workdir=$PWD docker.io/tuxsuite/tuxsuite python3 -c 'import mimetypes; print(mimetypes.guess_type("patches/mainline.mbox"))'
(None, None)
$ python3 -c 'import mimetypes; print(mimetypes.guess_type("patches/mainline.mbox"))'
('application/mbox', None)
Here is the mbox file, in case it is useful for reproducing this.