Re: ROOTFS_RPM_DEBUG undocumented

[Mirza Krak <mirza.krak@gmail.com>]

On 4 May 2018 at 14:41, Alexander Kanavin
<alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On 05/04/2018 03:42 PM, Paulo Neves wrote:
>>
>> I will propose a patch with a default bb.debug, and always have the
>> verbose on dnf. Let's see how it affects the performance. I cannot
>> test this in a docker container because of the problems described
>> below:
>>
>> In the mean time I found what was happening with my slow do_rootfs. I
>> was running bitbake with RPM packaging in a docker instance. It seems
>> there is a problem with RPM/dnf in bitbake where it is extremely slow
>> inside a docker container (1 file per second). After changing to IPK
>> packages everything went smoothly.
>>
>> Others have had the same problem[1]. I will later report this to
>> openembedded mailing list as this effectively makes RPM unusable in a
>> container. I will also provide a Dockerfile to reproduce this problem.
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/23137#issuecomment-359097008
>
>
> No need to report. We have already fixed this and reported upstream:
>
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/meta/recipes-devtools/rpm/files/0001-Revert-Set-FD_CLOEXEC-on-opened-files-before-exec-fr.patch

I have also been bitten by rpm performance issues in docker and glad
that I found this. I am in the process of verifying above (on pyro
branch).

Is this patch on its way to pyro and rocko branches?

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Mirza Krak