[yocto] ROOTFS_RPM_DEBUG undocumented

[Alexander Kanavin]

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1537564


Alex