datadog-agent-7.73/7.73.3 package update

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Commit: 445a6fcd5c05541c8ce5a2cc8e605f36deee7b62

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📦 Build Failed: Missing Dependency

curl: command not found

Build Details

Category	Details
Build System	shell/bash
Failure Point	curl -L https://www.tcpdump.org/release/libpcap-1.10.5.tar.xz

Root Cause Analysis 🔍

The curl command is not available in the build environment, preventing the download of libpcap-1.10.5.tar.xz. This causes subsequent tar extraction to fail with 'File format not recognized' because tar is reading from an empty stdin instead of the expected compressed data.

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🔍 Build failure fix suggestions

Found similar build failures that have been fixed in the past and analyzed them to suggest a fix:

Similar PRs with fixes

• wasi-libc/28 package update #72049

Suggested Changes

File: datadog-agent-7.73.yaml

• addition at line around line 82 (environment.contents.packages section)
  Original:

      - wget # Required for downloading clang-12 and kernel headers from debian

Replacement:

      - wget # Required for downloading clang-12 and kernel headers from debian
      - curl

Content:

Add curl to the packages list

Click to expand fix analysis

Analysis

Looking at the similar fixed build failure, the pattern is clear: when builds fail with "curl: command not found" or "/bin/sh: curl: not found", the solution is to add the curl package to the environment dependencies. In the wasi-libc.yaml fix, they added "wasi-sdk-libclang-rt-builtins" to resolve a different dependency issue, but the root cause pattern is the same - missing build dependencies that need to be explicitly declared in the environment.contents.packages section.

Click to expand fix explanation

Explanation

The build failure occurs because the system is trying to execute curl -L https://www.tcpdump.org/release/libpcap-1.10.5.tar.xz | tar xJ but curl is not available in the build environment. While the melange file already includes wget for downloading clang-12 and kernel headers, it's missing curl which is apparently needed elsewhere in the build process (likely in the libpcap download step). Adding curl to the environment.contents.packages section will ensure it's available during the build, just like how other build tools (binutils, cmake, etc.) are explicitly listed as dependencies.

Click to expand alternative approaches

Alternative Approaches

• Replace the curl command with wget since wget is already available: modify the build script to use 'wget -O- https://www.tcpdump.org/release/libpcap-1.10.5.tar.xz | tar xJ' instead of the curl command
• Use a pipeline step to download the file first with wget, then extract it separately to avoid the pipe operation entirely

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[debasishbsws]

Advisory already added

[aborrero]

LGTM.