<div dir="ltr">continuing to be a moving target...<div><br></div><div>the kernel folks are about to start using tar --wildcards, which i also hadn't heard of. (<a href="https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/kernel/build/+/2241508/7..9/kleaf/impl/abi/extracted_symbols.bzl#73">https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/kernel/build/+/2241508/7..9/kleaf/impl/abi/extracted_symbols.bzl#73</a>)<div><br></div><div>sounds like that might be a no-op though, asking for the default behavior?</div><div><br></div><div>       --wildcards<br>              Use wildcards (default for exclusion).<br></div><div><br></div><div>also, allegedly (by which i only mean "i haven't confirmed myself") that new use of --xform gets you a "bad xform" with toybox tar...</div></div><div><br></div><div>tar --directory={intermediates_dir} --wildcards --xform='s#^.+/##x' -xf {base_modules_archive} '*.ko'<br></div></div>