[yocto] ROOTFS_RPM_DEBUG undocumented

[Scott Rifenbark]

If ROOTFS_RPM_DEBUG should be a documented variable in the Yocto Project
Reference Manual, could someone please provide me with some base
explanation of the variable and any usage specifics?

Thanks,
Scott

On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 5:41 AM, Alexander Kanavin <
alexander.kanavin at 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/rec
> ipes-devtools/rpm/files/0001-Revert-Set-FD_CLOEXEC-on-opene
> d-files-before-exec-fr.patch
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1537564
>
>
>
> Alex
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