Well, considering that, why is it still treated as a bz2 archive in the next step?

Because the next operation ends up with the following error:

Unable to unpack /var/lib/lava/dispatcher/tmp/525/tftp-deploy-jBJXcy/nfsrootfs/enea-image-standard-raspberrypi3-64.tar: not a bzip2 file

Regards,

Dragoș

From: Remi Duraffort [mailto:remi.duraffort@linaro.org]
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 10:34 AM
To: Dragos Iorgulescu <Dragos.Iorgulescu@enea.com>
Cc: senthil.kumaran@linaro.org; lava-users@lists.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [Lava-users] Unpacking tar.bz2 root filesystems seems to malfunction

What I don't understand is the way the archive is "saved":

Using bz2 decompression
downloading file:///tftpboot/eltf/standard/Enea_Linux_7.0_raspberrypi3-64_enea-image-standard_2017-12-14_16-47-18/images/raspberrypi3-64/enea-image-standard-raspberrypi3-64.tar.bz2
saving as /var/lib/lava/dispatcher/tmp/525/tftp-deploy-jBJXcy/nfsrootfs/enea-image-standard-raspberrypi3-64.tar

Just to answser this question: the archive is decompressed on the fly (while downloading) so the resulting file is a ".tar".

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Rémi Duraffort

LAVA Team