Package: pbuilder Version: 0.210 Severity: wishlist Recently I've started using pbuilder with BUILDPLACE pointing into a tmpfs mount. That works beautifully so far. (Except in cases where the build tree takes up more than ~ 2G and there's a brief period of swapping my regular user processes out and then back in.) About the only thing I'd wish for is if pbuilder, at the end, could just unmount the tmpfs instead of going through the whole process of deleting the build chroot.
I'd be happy to implement a patch for this support myself, if I could get some comments on the feature and pointers on where would be the best places to insert the hook code. The configuration parameters I'm thinking of would be something like: USE_TMPFS=yes|no TMPFS_SIZE: if defined, pass "-o size=$TMPFS_SIZE" to the tmpfs mount command. I'm not sure whether or not it would be worthwhile to provide command-line options to set these parameters. I'm also not sure what would be the best approach to the case where random processes are left over keeping the tmpfs mount busy. Display an error message and loop waiting for the user to kill the errant processes, as it currently does for a busy /dev/pts mount? In a brief test, it appears that deleting all the used files and cwd directories wouldn't help to free up the mount point, unfortunately. Or maybe, after a certain time of waiting, it could just print a warning message and delete everything, but leave the tmpfs mounted? -- Daniel Schepler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
