-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mike Bonnet wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 14:11 -0500, Michael E Brown wrote: >> So here is the list of things that have been requested lately and I'll >> be working on a few of these over the next few weeks. If anybody has any >> input, I'd take it. As I start on each, I'll most likely email the >> mailing list with the outline of what I'm doing. >> >> If anybody has existing patches for these (against current mock git), >> all the better... :) >> >> 1) more reliable mount/umount >> several people have pointed out instances where mock exits leaving >> mounts behind (specifically /dev), and the next invokation of mock >> ends up 'rm -rf' the host machine's /dev. Bad.... >> >> 2) caching yum downloads >> several people have commented that the autocache stuff is great for >> speeding up builds, others say that it can sometimes be bad for >> reproducability, and that simply saving the yum cache dir would be >> better. >> >> 3) ccache integration >> This is a new one that I havent seen before, but should significantly >> speed up builds for people who often do >> rebuild-the-entire-distribution-type things. I'm told by some that >> this is bad for reproducability, but good for speeding up builds when >> you are just sanity checking or when that small reproducability hit >> doesnt matter. I've also seen lots of empirical data that ccache >> should not cause any problems. This will be have to be specifically >> enabled through a commandline or config file option, so those who care >> can turn it on/off. >> >> 4) distcc integration >> Pretty much the same case as ccache. Has more things that need thought >> than the ccache case, above, though. > > A method for cleaning up stale/orphaned processes that get created > during a build was proposed a while ago: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=221351 > > I'll leave it to you as to whether or not this is the correct > implementation, but I certainly think it's a good idea. I see rogue > processes consuming resources on the build machines all the time. The > process-cleanup code should probably be run before mock exits, whether > the build completed successfully or not. >
Didn't this go in (orphanskill) in the last round of updates? Clark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG+WsZHyuj/+TTEp0RAk9NAJwOhOmF6xmaIhbPDRVpaBKwHV65nwCgjBOU bjyOf43DXXIHJj/AW+jz2Ms= =cx6b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Fedora-buildsys-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-buildsys-list
