Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2] qemu/testimage: Ensure GNU tar is in test images

2024-11-21 Thread Richard Purdie via lists.openembedded.org
On Wed, 2024-11-20 at 19:08 -0800, Khem Raj wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 1:33 PM Richard Purdie via > lists.openembedded.org > wrote: > > > > We've seen cases where a ptest (strace) has a 43GB sparse file in the test > > directory. busybox tar doesn't work well with this. The resulting 1.4GB

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2] qemu/testimage: Ensure GNU tar is in test images

2024-11-20 Thread Khem Raj via lists.openembedded.org
On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 1:33 PM Richard Purdie via lists.openembedded.org wrote: > > We've seen cases where a ptest (strace) has a 43GB sparse file in the test > directory. busybox tar doesn't work well with this. The resulting 1.4GB > archive > takes hours to extract too. > > Ensure tar is added

[OE-core] [PATCH v2] qemu/testimage: Ensure GNU tar is in test images

2024-11-20 Thread Richard Purdie via lists.openembedded.org
We've seen cases where a ptest (strace) has a 43GB sparse file in the test directory. busybox tar doesn't work well with this. The resulting 1.4GB archive takes hours to extract too. Ensure tar is added to our full images and use the sparse option to collect files for debugging. This stops crazy b