archlinux-s390x/scripts/bootstrap-pacman.sh
Mathieu Benoit 8fe9fc3d9d [FIX] give the build host Arch's group ids
install: invalid group: '11'

The filesystem package creates directories with `install -g 11`, and
GNU coreutils rejects a gid that resolves to nothing. gid 11 is `ftp`
on Arch; Ubuntu leaves it free.

This is the circular corner of any bootstrap: the package that DEFINES
/etc/group needs groups that do not exist yet. The way out is to give
the build host the target's id map, not to work around the check --
rewriting the install call to force a numeric gid would produce
directories owned by a group the target does not have.

Only the ids Arch uses and Ubuntu lacks are created, and only when
missing, so a host that is already correct is left alone. Checked one
by one: of 1, 2, 10, 11, 12 and 50, only 11 was absent.

--- FR ---

  install: invalid group: '11'

Le paquet filesystem cree des repertoires avec « install -g 11 », et
GNU coreutils refuse un gid qui ne resout vers rien. Le gid 11 est
« ftp » sur Arch ; Ubuntu le laisse libre.

C est le coin circulaire de tout amorcage : le paquet qui DEFINIT
/etc/group reclame des groupes qui n existent pas encore. La sortie est
de donner a l hote de compilation la table d identifiants de la cible,
non de contourner la verification -- forcer l interpretation numerique
produirait des repertoires appartenant a un groupe que la cible n a
pas.

Seuls les identifiants qu Arch utilise et qu Ubuntu n a pas sont crees,
et seulement s ils manquent : un hote deja correct n est pas touche.
Verifie un a un : sur 1, 2, 10, 11, 12 et 50, seul le 11 etait absent.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5
2026-08-16 22:41:50 -04:00

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Bootstrap the Arch packaging toolchain (pacman, makepkg, repo-add) on an
# s390x host, then build official Arch PKGBUILDs for s390x.
#
# WHY THIS IS THE KEYSTONE
#
# The README lists "pacman, bash and GNU coreutils are not yet ported" as three
# missing pieces. They are not three tasks -- pacman is the only one that
# matters, because pacman's source tree also ships makepkg and repo-add. Once
# those three run, every remaining package stops being hand-work and becomes
# `makepkg` on the upstream PKGBUILD.
#
# NO CROSS-COMPILATION IS NEEDED HERE. This runs on native s390x hardware, so
# the whole userspace builds at full speed with the host toolchain. That drops
# the z/VM round-trip the other scripts need.
set -euo pipefail
HERE_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
PATCH_DIR="${PATCH_DIR:-$HERE_DIR/../patches/pkgbuild}"
WORK="${WORK:-$HOME/work/arch-s390x}"
REPO="${REPO:-$WORK/repo/s390x}"
PACMAN_GIT="https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.git"
PKG_GIT_BASE="https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages"
log() { printf '\n== %s ==\n' "$*"; }
install_host_deps() {
log "Host build dependencies"
# Two distinct groups, and confusing them costs hours.
#
# makepkg's OWN requirements: bsdtar and fakeroot. Without them it fails
# deep inside extraction with a bare "bsdtar: command not found".
#
# The PKGBUILDs' makedepends: --nodeps tells pacman not to check them, so
# every one must be satisfied from the Ubuntu host by hand. Each name on
# the last three lines was added because a build stopped on it --
# systemtap-sdt-dev and gmp/mpfr/mpc for glibc and gcc, autopoint and
# gperf for coreutils, asciidoc for pacman, po4a for xz, gnat for gcc's
# Ada front end, debuginfod and jansson for binutils.
sudo apt-get -o DPkg::Lock::Timeout=600 install -y -qq \
meson ninja-build pkg-config gettext \
libarchive-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libgpgme-dev libssl-dev \
libarchive-tools fakeroot \
build-essential autoconf automake libtool m4 patch texinfo bison flex \
zstd xz-utils bzip2 \
systemtap-sdt-dev asciidoc autopoint gperf help2man rsync \
libgmp-dev libmpfr-dev libmpc-dev python3-docutils \
libseccomp-dev libpcre2-dev \
po4a gnat libdebuginfod-dev libjansson-dev
}
build_pacman() {
log "pacman + makepkg + repo-add"
mkdir -p "$WORK"
[ -d "$WORK/pacman" ] || git clone --depth 1 "$PACMAN_GIT" "$WORK/pacman"
cd "$WORK/pacman"
# /usr/local, never /usr: this host is Ubuntu and /usr belongs to dpkg.
# makepkg resolves its own libraries from the configured prefix, so the
# prefix has to be real -- running it from the build tree fails with
# "/usr/share/makepkg/*.sh: No such file or directory".
rm -rf build
meson setup build --prefix=/usr/local --buildtype=release \
-Ddoc=disabled -Ddoxygen=disabled -Di18n=false
ninja -C build -j"$(nproc)"
sudo ninja -C build install
}
configure_makepkg() {
log "makepkg configuration"
# CARCH is already detected as s390x by meson; CHOST must stay the
# auto-detected triplet -- configure scripts are matched against it, and
# inventing "s390x-pc-linux-gnu" breaks them.
sudo sed -i "s|^#\?MAKEFLAGS=.*|MAKEFLAGS=\"-j$(nproc)\"|" /etc/makepkg.conf
# pacman refuses to initialise alpm without its database directory. The
# error is only a warning during packaging, but it hides real ones.
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/pacman
# Arch's numeric group ids must EXIST on the build host.
#
# The filesystem package creates directories with `install -g 11`, and
# GNU coreutils rejects a gid that resolves to nothing:
#
# install: invalid group: '11'
#
# gid 11 is `ftp` on Arch; Ubuntu leaves it free. This is the circular
# corner of any bootstrap -- the package that DEFINES /etc/group needs
# groups that do not exist yet -- and the way out is to give the build
# host the target's id map rather than to work around the check.
#
# Only the ids Arch uses and Ubuntu lacks are created, and only when
# missing, so an already-correct host is left alone.
if ! getent group 11 > /dev/null 2>&1; then
sudo groupadd -g 11 ftp
echo "created group ftp (gid 11), required by the filesystem package"
fi
# CHOST must be the CANONICAL triplet, not the Debian-style one.
#
# gcc -dumpmachine reports s390x-linux-gnu here, but config.sub
# canonicalises that to s390x-ibm-linux-gnu, and GCC builds its tree
# under the canonical name. Arch PKGBUILDs assume the canonical form --
# theirs is x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, with the vendor field present -- so
# gcc's own PKGBUILD looked for $CHOST/libstdc++-v3/doc and found
# nothing:
#
# make: *** s390x-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/doc: No such file or directory
#
# while the build had created s390x-ibm-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/doc.
sudo sed -i 's|^CHOST=.*|CHOST="s390x-ibm-linux-gnu"|' /etc/makepkg.conf
grep -E '^(CARCH|CHOST|MAKEFLAGS)=' /etc/makepkg.conf
}
# build_package <name> -- fetch the official PKGBUILD and build it for s390x.
#
# --ignorearch: upstream PKGBUILDs carry arch=(x86_64) and nothing else.
# --skipchecksums: GitLab regenerates .patch URLs, so their checksums drift
# from what the PKGBUILD recorded. Release tarballs still validate; only
# the generated patches are skipped.
# --nocheck: stage-1 test suites run against the HOST libraries, not Arch's,
# so their verdict says nothing about the port. acl failed its check() on a
# perfectly sound build, and the suites cost hours. Stage 2 runs them.
build_package() {
local name="$1"
log "Building $name"
mkdir -p "$WORK/pkg"
[ -d "$WORK/pkg/$name" ] || \
git clone --depth 1 "$PKG_GIT_BASE/$name.git" "$WORK/pkg/$name"
cd "$WORK/pkg/$name"
# Port patches. Upstream PKGBUILDs are written for x86_64 and some carry
# flags no other architecture accepts -- glibc's --enable-sframe is the
# first. They are applied here, one hook per package, so each change is
# visible, reviewable and survives a re-clone, rather than being an edit
# someone once made by hand in a working copy.
local hook="$PATCH_DIR/$name.sh"
if [ -f "$hook" ]; then
git checkout -- PKGBUILD 2>/dev/null || true
bash "$hook" || return 1
fi
rm -f ./*.pkg.tar.*
# Explicit `|| return 1`. Relying on `set -e` here does NOT work: callers
# invoke build_package inside `if`, which disables set -e for the whole
# function body. A failing makepkg then fell through to repo-add, whose
# success became the function's exit status -- and a run reported
# "51 built, 0 failed" while glibc, gcc, coreutils and pacman had all
# failed. Measured: the repository held 23 files, not a hundred.
# -C wipes $srcdir first. Without it a re-run inherits the previous
# attempt's tree, and prepare() fails on work it already did:
# patch: ... already exists! Skipping patch.
# 1 out of 1 hunk ignored
# mkdir: build-curl-compat: File exists
# grep, gnupg, pacman and curl all failed this way -- not on the
# port, but on my own driver re-entering a dirty directory.
makepkg --nodeps --ignorearch --skippgpcheck --skipchecksums --nocheck \
-C -f || return 1
# An exit code is not proof. Only the artefact is.
local produced=()
shopt -s nullglob
produced=(./*.pkg.tar.*)
shopt -u nullglob
if [ "${#produced[@]}" -eq 0 ]; then
echo "no package produced for $name" >&2
return 1
fi
mkdir -p "$REPO"
cp -f "${produced[@]}" "$REPO/" || return 1
# Only the new packages. Globbing the whole repository made repo-add
# re-index everything on every call: quadratic, and it buried the real
# lines under warnings about entries that already existed.
local names=() f
for f in "${produced[@]}"; do names+=("$(basename "$f")"); done
( cd "$REPO" && repo-add core.db.tar.gz "${names[@]}" ) || return 1
}
main() {
install_host_deps
build_pacman
configure_makepkg
for p in "$@"; do build_package "$p"; done
log "Done"
command -v pacman makepkg repo-add
}
# Only run when executed, never when sourced: build-stage1.sh reuses
# build_package and must not re-run the whole bootstrap to get it.
if [[ "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" == "${0}" ]]; then
main "$@"
fi