On 29.08.2017 15:10, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi Fam, Kamil,
> 
>> On 08/28/2017 02:47 PM, Fam Zheng wrote:
> [...]
>>> +        subprocess.check_call([tar_cmd,
>>> +                               "--exclude-vcs",
>>> +                               "--exclude=tests/vm/*.img",
>>> +                               "--exclude=tests/vm/*.img.*",
>>> +                               "--exclude=*.d",
>>> +                               "--exclude=*.o",
>>> +                               "--exclude=docker-src.*",
>>> +                               "-cf", tarfile, '.'], cwd=data_dir,
>>
>> I'm not happy with this command :/
>> My distrib uses tmpfs for /tmp and suddently the whole X window became
>> irresponsive until this script failing after filling 8G of /tmp and swap:
>>
>> ...
>> DEBUG:root:Creating archive /tmp/qemu-vm-F7CY9O/data-3a52c.tar for
>> data dir: .
>> tar: /tmp/qemu-vm-F7CY9O/data-3a52c.tar: Wrote only 4096 of 10240 bytes
>> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>> Failed to prepare guest environment
>>
>> Then I figured out my workdir is full of testing stuff, debug images,
>> firmwares, coredumps, etc.
>>
>> I'll think of another way.
> 
> Using:
> 
> (git ls-files; git submodule foreach --recursive "git ls-files | sed
> s_^_\$sm_path/_" | sed /^Entering/d) > files.txt
> 
> and:
> 
>         subprocess.check_call([tar_cmd,
>                                "-cf", tarfile,
>                                "-v" if self.debug else "",
>                                "-T", "files.txt"], cwd=data_dir,
>                               stdin=self._devnull, stdout=self._stdout)
> 
> Current /master and submodules generated tarball is ~305MB uncompressed.
> 
> Kamil do you mind testing this command on NetBSD?
> 
> (obviously 'files.txt' goes in tmpdir).
> 

Result:

http://www.netbsd.org/~kamil/qemu/files.txt

I've tested this command line on a checkout from Jul 17th rev. 77031ee1ce4c

> Regards,
> 
> Phil.
>