[OE-core] [PATCH] populate_sdk_base: repeat to tar archive file five time

[Otavio Salvador]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Rongqing Li <rongqing.li at windriver.com> wrote:
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> On 10/16/2013 02:39 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
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>> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 3:34 AM, Rongqing Li <rongqing.li at windriver.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> On 10/16/2013 02:24 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
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>>>> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:53 AM,  <rongqing.li at windriver.com> wrote:
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>>>>> From: Roy Li <rongqing.li at windriver.com>
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>>>>> [YOCTO #5287]
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>>>>> tar failed and reported that file changed as we read it, now
>>>>> we workaround it
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>>>>> Signed-off-by: Roy Li <rongqing.li at windriver.com>
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>>>> You must be kidding right?! loop 5 times?!? why not fix the root cause
>>>> of the change?
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>>> Sorry, I do not know the root cause, and I see many people spent
>>> lots of efforts to investigate, but do not find the root cause,
>>> sometime we suspect it is the building servers kernel issue,
>>> if it is true, we can not fix the building servers, we only
>>> workaround the code.
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>> The only possible cause is it starting to prepare the tar /before/ all
>> packages are unpack. This would be a missing dependency against a task
>> or something like that.
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>> How can I reproduce the issue?
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> Describe in the bugzillar:
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> https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4757

This seems quote system specific.

I am wondering if this could be 'workarounded' issuing a sync before
running the tar.

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