We're seeing huge delays on the autobuilder during oe-selftest builddir
deletion. For example there is a currently running selftest we could do
with the results from and its been going 13 hours, at least 8 of which
was in deletion of the builddirs.
There are a variety of ways we could solve this problem however the
autobuilder has a mechanism for deferred deletion, "clobberdir" which
it already uses for this kind of work.
Whilst in general hardcoding things like this is horrible, I believe
in this case the benefits (and resulting improvements on my sanity
if nothing else) mean this is a case where we should do it.
If/as/when someone can come up with a better solution that is fine
and this can be replaced.
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
while delay and os.path.exists(d + "/bitbake.lock"):
time.sleep(1)
delay = delay - 1
+ # Deleting these directories takes a lot of time, use autobuilder
+ # clobberdir if its available
+ clobberdir = os.path.expanduser("~/yocto-autobuilder-helper/janitor/clobberdir")
+ if os.path.exists(clobberdir):
+ try:
+ subprocess.check_call([clobberdir, d])
+ return
+ except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
+ pass
bb.utils.prunedir(d, ionice=True)
def fork_for_tests(concurrency_num, suite):