[OE-core] "qemu-arm udevadm hwdb --update" eats swap space after build host update to openSUSE 13.2

[Khem Raj]

> On Dec 18, 2014, at 3:19 AM, Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at sigma-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> 
> Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> writes:
> 
>>> I had a big subtree from earlier local openSUSE Build Service runs
>>> below toplevel /var/run. After deleting this the build succeeds.
>>> 
>>> But manually deleting such files before running OE builds cannot
>>> really be a reasonable solution. :(
>> 
>> Agreed, we need to figure out which tool is suffering issues with
>> circular symlinks,
> 
> Circular symlinks are not the issue but absolute symlinks (like /tmp ->
> /var/tmp due to local changes).  I can not find absolute symlinks to
> directories in my images anymore, so Steffen's problem might be caused
> by local changes too.
> 
> Chroot unaware tools (qemu) are the real problem… 

I think in this case one could use qemu’s -E option ( -E TMPDIR=/x/y/z) to pass target specific TMPDIR
to udevadm