2005439 - Running "mach macos-sign -v" on linux fails: xattr subprocess failed with exit code 64

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[:gerard-majax]

2025-12-11T08:23:43.1968778Z option -r not recognized
2025-12-11T08:23:43.1969017Z 
2025-12-11T08:23:43.1969726Z usage: xattr [-slz] file [file ...]
2025-12-11T08:23:43.1970115Z        xattr -p [-slz] attr_name file [file ...]
2025-12-11T08:23:43.1970417Z        xattr -w [-sz] attr_name attr_value file [file ...]
2025-12-11T08:23:43.1970705Z        xattr -d [-s] attr_name file [file ...]
2025-12-11T08:23:43.1970951Z        xattr -c [-s] file [file ...]
2025-12-11T08:23:43.1971103Z 
2025-12-11T08:23:43.1971253Z The first form lists the names of all xattrs on the given file(s).
2025-12-11T08:23:43.1971619Z The second form (-p) prints the value of the xattr attr_name.
2025-12-11T08:23:43.1971973Z The third form (-w) sets the value of the xattr attr_name to attr_value.
2025-12-11T08:23:43.1972299Z The fourth form (-d) deletes the xattr attr_name.
2025-12-11T08:23:43.1972605Z The fifth form (-c) deletes (clears) all xattrs.
2025-12-11T08:23:43.1972787Z 
2025-12-11T08:23:43.1972861Z options:
2025-12-11T08:23:43.1973042Z   -h: print this help
2025-12-11T08:23:43.1973298Z   -s: act on symbolic links themselves rather than their targets
2025-12-11T08:23:43.1973607Z   -l: print long format (attr_name: attr_value)
2025-12-11T08:23:43.1973939Z   -z: compress or decompress (if compressed) attribute value in zip format
2025-12-11T08:23:43.2022859Z  0:00.25 E xattr subprocess failed with exit code 64. See (-v) verbose output for command output. Failing command: [xattr -cr /home/worker/actions-runner/_work/enterprise-firefox/enterprise-firefox/obj-aarch64-apple-darwin/dist/hfs/Firefox Enterprise.app]

This started when I merged today's central, so I suspect the culprit is bug 2003412 ; there is -r on macOS xattr but not on linux (debian):

 xattr -r
option -r not recognized

usage: xattr [-slz] file [file ...]
       xattr -p [-slz] attr_name file [file ...]
       xattr -w [-sz] attr_name attr_value file [file ...]
       xattr -d [-s] attr_name file [file ...]
       xattr -c [-s] file [file ...]

The first form lists the names of all xattrs on the given file(s).
The second form (-p) prints the value of the xattr attr_name.
The third form (-w) sets the value of the xattr attr_name to attr_value.
The fourth form (-d) deletes the xattr attr_name.
The fifth form (-c) deletes (clears) all xattrs.

options:
  -h: print this help
  -s: act on symbolic links themselves rather than their targets
  -l: print long format (attr_name: attr_value)
  -z: compress or decompress (if compressed) attribute value in zip format
$ echo $?
64

Comment 1

[:gerard-majax]

Attachment: Bug 2005439 - Fix xattr call from mach macos-sign r?ahochheiden!

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Set release status flags based on info from the regressing bug 2003412

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/171d9a28dd43
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/a7312d4e8960
Fix xattr call from mach macos-sign r=ahochheiden

Comment 4

[pstanciu]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/a7312d4e8960