Re: [RFC][PATCH] insane.bbclass: Add do_qa_pseudo function to check for common errors listed in pseudo.log

[Seebs <seebs@seebs.net>]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 22:50:32 +0200
Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com> wrote:

> inode mismatch:
> '/OE/build/oe-core/tmp-glibc/work/core2-64-oe-linux/systemd/1_234-r0/recipe-sysroot/etc/group'
> ino 29361846 in db, 29361904 in request.

Just to be clear about this:

This is at least potentially an Actual Problem. It's probably not a
good idea to habitually ignore these. A thing like this happening means
that, at some point:

1. Something created etc/group, and it got inode 29361846 recorded in
the database.
2. Something deleted etc/group, and did NOT record this to the database.
3. Something created etc/group, with inode 29361904.

It's possible that the thing creating etc/group didn't record it to the
database, and something else just referred to it later (like a stat
call), or that this was generated by the request creating the entry.

Either way, it means changes were made to a pseudo-managed hunk of
filesystem without pseudo knowing about it, and that is generally bad.

-s