feature request: record build space used

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:03:57 -0400
Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 12:37 +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:

 [ .. ]

> > Let me try to rephrase it:
> > What I want to know is how much space is required to build a port
> > so I can have all that done in memory-backed file system.
> > 
> > If I'm understanding the way tindy works correctly that space is:
> > - the untar'ed jail
> > - the untar'ed dependecies
> > - the untar'ed sources of the port to be built
> > - the results of the build process (.o files, binaries, docs, etc.)
> > 
> > The distfiles and packages are kept outside the build dir (which
> > looks something like /TINDERBOX_ROOT/BUILD_NAME) so they shouldn't
> > be counted in the necessary space.
> 
> But they're not.  Everything needed to install a port is copied to the
> chroot ({pb}/BUILD) during pre-setup. This way, buildscript can
> install all the dependent packages, build the port, install it, then
> create the package.  So the total space required will be sizeof(jail
> + dependency tbzs + dependencies installed + port built + port
> installed + package).

Oh, so the distfiles and and packages are first copied in the chroot? I
didn't realized that.

> > The way I see it implemented:
> > - record the space size for the last build if successful.
> > - record the space size of the last build if unsuccessful and bigger
> > that the one currently recorded.
> > - add a ports_fail_pattered to look for 'out of space'
> > - have the recorded space exported in prePortBuild hook so that one
> > could use his favorite mount command for /TINDERBOX_ROOT/BUILD_NAME
> 
> All of this is doable, but we need to come to an understanding of what
> is counted toward total space.  If you agree with what I've said
> above, then I'll start work today.

 [ .. ]

Yes.

> What about the other two requests (for OS info and dependencies)?  I
> asked questions about those as well.

For what I understand from what you wrote above, there's nothing more
to record but the size of {pb}/BUILD after the package is made.


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