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On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 14:34 +0800, Rongqing Li wrote:
> 
> On 10/16/2013 02:24 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:53 AM,  <rongqing.li@windriver.com> wrote:
> >> From: Roy Li <rongqing.li@windriver.com>
> >>
> >> [YOCTO #5287]
> >>
> >> tar failed and reported that file changed as we read it, now
> >> we workaround it
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Roy Li <rongqing.li@windriver.com>
> >
> > You must be kidding right?! loop 5 times?!? why not fix the root cause
> > of the change?
> >
> 
> 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.

This workaround is not going into master, its horrid. Do we know which
versions of the kernel on the server have the issue. I'd much rather
tell people to fix their broken filesystems for example and refuse to
run on them.

Cheers,

Richard