Re: [PATCH] populate_sdk_base: repeat to tar archive file five time

[Rongqing Li <rongqing.li@windriver.com>]

On 10/16/2013 02:39 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 3:34 AM, Rongqing Li <rongqing.li@windriver.com> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> How can I reproduce the issue?
>

Describe in the bugzillar:

https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4757

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