On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 12:00 +0300, Ed Bartosh wrote: > Running multiple createrepo in parallel can cause raice conditions > when creating/accessing rpm database. Createrepo fails with the > error "package_manager: rpmdb: BDB0060 PANIC: fatal region error detected" > in such cases. > > Running createrepo sequentially should fix the race as rpm database > will not be accessed by multiple createrepo at the same time. > > [YOCTO #6571] > > Signed-off-by: Ed Bartosh <[email protected]> > --- > meta/lib/oe/package_manager.py | 11 ++++------- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/meta/lib/oe/package_manager.py b/meta/lib/oe/package_manager.py > index c9a8084..c956116 100644 > --- a/meta/lib/oe/package_manager.py > +++ b/meta/lib/oe/package_manager.py > @@ -108,25 +108,22 @@ class RpmIndexer(Indexer): > archs = archs.union(set(sdk_pkg_archs)) > > rpm_createrepo = bb.utils.which(os.getenv('PATH'), "createrepo") > - index_cmds = [] > rpm_dirs_found = False > for arch in archs: > arch_dir = os.path.join(self.deploy_dir, arch) > if not os.path.isdir(arch_dir): > continue > > - index_cmds.append("%s --update -q %s" % (rpm_createrepo, > arch_dir)) > - > rpm_dirs_found = True > > + result = create_index("%s --update -q %s" % (rpm_createrepo, > arch_dir)) > + if result: > + bb.fatal(result) > + > if not rpm_dirs_found: > bb.note("There are no packages in %s" % self.deploy_dir) > return > > - result = oe.utils.multiprocess_exec(index_cmds, create_index) > - if result: > - bb.fatal('%s' % ('\n'.join(result))) > - > > class OpkgIndexer(Indexer): > def write_index(self):
Running these in parallel gives us a significant speed improvement. Could we instead point them at separate directories for the RPM database (within WORKDIR to address the previous issue too)? Cheers, Richard -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
