Issues with running multiple tinderbuilds in parallel

Ade Lovett ade at freebsd.org
Mon Feb 4 17:31:05 EST 2008


On Feb 02, 2008, at 23:58 , Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> How were you doing these builds?  That is, what Builds were running
> simultaneously?  The fact that proc entries show up is very strange
> since mtree is called with the -x argument which should prevent
> descending into other mount points.

At the time, two builds were running, 5-i386 and 6-i386, manually  
launched with 'tc tinderbuild ... -nullfs' in separate xterms.

I have HOST_WORKDIR set to /local/work, so the builds will have been  
under /local/work/builds/<buildname> -- I also tried without (/tbox is  
also a local filesystem on this machine), with the same effect.

The interesting issue is that it doesn't happen consistently -- ie:  
most ports got built without these weird errors (I was building x11/ 
gnome2-lite at the time).  Looks like some kind of race condition  
somewhere.

Doing builds one at a time (ie: cycling through {5,6,7,8}-i386) shows  
no errors like this.

-aDe



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