python-3.8 changed the default tar format to PAX_FORMAT. This caused issues in our testsuite with package extraction of files with UTF-8 characters as we run the tests under the C locale. sycn600.py: error: error while reading package /tmp/pactest-xuhri4xa/var/cache/pacman/pkg/unicodechars-2.0-1.pkg.tar.gz: Pathname can't be converted from UTF-8 to current locale. Set format back to GNU_FORMAT. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> --- This patch at least gets us back to where we were with python-3.7. We probably have heaps more issues with UTF-8 usage... test/pacman/pmpkg.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/test/pacman/pmpkg.py b/test/pacman/pmpkg.py index 6a845222..e40868cc 100644 --- a/test/pacman/pmpkg.py +++ b/test/pacman/pmpkg.py @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ def makepkg(self, path): util.mkdir(os.path.dirname(self.path)) # Generate package metadata - tar = tarfile.open(self.path, "w:gz") + tar = tarfile.open(self.path, "w:gz", format=tarfile.GNU_FORMAT) for name, data in archive_files: info = tarfile.TarInfo(name) info.size = len(data) -- 2.24.0