star: remove component and drop cpio's now-unused BuildRequires: rmt

[PawelWMS]

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Summary

Removes the legacy star SRPM (Joerg Schilling's "Schily" archiver — distinct from GNU tar and bsdtar) from Azure Linux. The star SRPM is failing automated package-signing-pipeline decompression and cannot be published; the sub-packages it produced (star, rmt, scpio, spax) are not required to ship Azure Linux.

The only build-graph edge that kept star in the distro was a spurious BuildRequires: rmt line in cpio.spec — rmt is the remote-magnetic-tape protocol daemon, only consulted by cpio at runtime via the /etc/rmt path, never at build time. The two changes must land atomically: dropping the BR first leaves star orphaned but still built; dropping star first would FTBFS cpio.

Changes

base/comps/cpio/cpio.comp.toml (new)

Two spec-search-replace overlays that mirror upstream Fedora rawhide commit 84d5a4fe:

1. Strip the trailing , rmt from cpio.spec's BuildRequires line:
   • BuildRequires: texinfo, autoconf, automake, gettext, gettext-devel, rmt
   • BuildRequires: texinfo, autoconf, automake, gettext, gettext-devel
2. Drop the rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libexecdir}/rmt line from %install — stale leftover; cpio no longer builds its own rmt helper under _libexecdir.

A plain spec-remove-tag for the BR would have dropped the entire tag; the scoped spec-search-replace regex preserves the other entries.

Manifest + spec deletions

• base/comps/components.toml — delete [components.star].
• base/comps/components-publish-channels.toml — delete "star".
• specs/s/star/ — delete star.spec, seven Fedora patches, and sources.
• locks/star.lock — delete.

Validation

• azldev -q comp render -p cpio — clean (STATUS: ok); both overlays apply; the rendered spec shows the cleaned-up BR line and the deleted %install line.
• azldev -q comp update -p cpio — locks/cpio.lock refreshed.
• cpio has no runtime Requires: rmt and no Recommends: rmt, so no consumer of the cpio RPM is affected.

Functionality lost

The star, spax, scpio, rmt packages are no longer published. rmt was niche (remote-magnetic-tape over rsh/ssh); in 2026 the canonical replacements are tar --rmt-command=ssh + OpenSSH on the remote end, or modern dump (not currently in the distro). If a downstream image needs rmt we can import dump later. AZL's tape-archive utility coverage continues via GNU tar and bsdtar.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Removes the legacy star component (and its rendered spec/patch artifacts) from Azure Linux and updates cpio to no longer build-require rmt, eliminating the last build-graph dependency keeping star in the distro.

Changes:

• Drop the star component from manifests, publish channels, locks, and rendered specs.
• Introduce a dedicated cpio component definition with overlays to remove BuildRequires: ... rmt and a stale %install cleanup line.
• Re-render cpio.spec and refresh locks/cpio.lock to reflect the new component inputs.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 13 out of 15 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

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File	Description
specs/s/star/star.spec	Removes rendered spec for star (component deletion).
specs/s/star/star-configure-c99.patch	Removes rendered patch artifact for star.
specs/s/star/star-1.6-star-mk.patch	Removes rendered patch artifact for star.
specs/s/star/star-1.6-manpagereferences.patch	Removes rendered patch artifact for star.
specs/s/star/star-1.6-Change-the-sbin-install-dir-to-bin-due-to-Fedora-Cha.patch	Removes rendered patch artifact for star.
specs/s/star/star-1.5.2-use-ssh-by-default.patch	Removes rendered patch artifact for star.
specs/s/star/star-1.5.2-rmt-rh-access.patch	Removes rendered patch artifact for star.
specs/s/star/star-1.5.2-bufferoverflow.patch	Removes rendered patch artifact for star.
specs/s/star/sources	Removes rendered sources manifest for star.
specs/c/cpio/cpio.spec	Rendered spec update reflecting removal of rmt BR and stale %install line.
locks/star.lock	Removes star lockfile as component is deleted.
locks/cpio.lock	Updates cpio lock fingerprint after introducing component overlays.
base/comps/cpio/cpio.comp.toml	Adds cpio component file with overlays to remove rmt BR and stale %install cleanup.
base/comps/components.toml	Removes inline star and cpio component entries (cpio moved to dedicated .comp.toml).
base/comps/components-publish-channels.toml	Removes star from the publish channel component list.