EasyBuild 4.6.0 fails to install on BeeGFS

[rungitta]

Just ran into this issue while installing latest 4.6.0 EasytBuild on all our clusters. The cluster who has beegfs as filesystem cannot untar the tarfile since it doesn't support hard links. The issue was quickly resolved by building in /tmp instead but after looking closer at the source it seems like the tarfile here (which you get when using --install-latest-eb-release:
https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e8/e4/16246c2e65b477eca58a9c3e55a86822d9e1846cd38eef0d316e09f2888e/easybuild-framework-4.6.0.tar.gz
is not the same as this one here:
https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/archive/refs/tags/easybuild-framework-v4.6.0.tar.gz
The second one has a symlink:

$ ls -la easybuild-framework-easybuild-framework-v4.6.0/test/framework/sandbox/sources |grep alt
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 user user   3 Jul  8 08:11 alt_toy -> toy

Where as in the first one, the content of alt_toy has been converted into a hardlinks.

Error message from log:

easybuild-framework-4.6.0/test/framework/sandbox/sources/toy/extensions/bar-0.0.tar.gz
tar: easybuild-framework-4.6.0/test/framework/sandbox/sources/toy/extensions/bar-0.0.tar.gz: Cannot hard link to `easybuild-framework-4.6.0/test/framework/sandbox/sources/alt_toy/extensions/bar-0.0.tar.gz': Operation not permitted

[boegel]

Hmm, we're not using hard links deliberately, this is probably done when we create the source tarballs that are uploaded to PyPI which is done with python3 setup.py sdist... (see create_source_tarball.sh)

[ocaisa]

Eek, I introduced the alt_toy symlink without a second thought.