Bug 13119

Summary:	rootfs log full of RPM debug spew
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core	Reporter:	Ross Burton <ross.burton>
Component:	deployment	Assignee:	Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Medium+	CC:	mark.hatle, randy.macleod
Version:	2.7
Target Milestone:	2.7 M3
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Ross Burton 2019-01-03 20:08:23 UTC

...
Total size: 70 M
Installed size: 433 M
Downloading Packages:
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
fdio:       8 reads,     8132 total bytes in 0.000016 secs
fdio:      41 reads,  1117368 total bytes in 0.000245 secs
fdio:      36 reads,   953208 total bytes in 0.000190 secs
fdio:       9 reads,    49392 total bytes in 0.000042 secs
fdio:       8 reads,     8704 total bytes in 0.000026 secs
fdio:      10 reads,    95884 total bytes in 0.000046 secs
fdio:       8 reads,     8468 total bytes in 0.000011 secs
fdio:       8 reads,    35792 total bytes in 0.000016 secs
fdio:       8 reads,     8824 total bytes in 0.000015 secs
fdio:       9 reads,    61312 total bytes in 0.000023 secs
fdio:      10 reads,    79128 total bytes in 0.000041 secs
fdio:       8 reads,    16708 total bytes in 0.000021 secs
fdio:       9 reads,    71108 total bytes in 0.000051 secs
fdio:       8 reads,    12828 total bytes in 0.000019 secs
fdio:       8 reads,     7296 total bytes in 0.000015 secs
fdio:      22 reads,   470820 total bytes in 0.000099 secs
fdio:       8 reads,     8216 total bytes in 0.000014 secs
...
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Whilst I understand that we want slightly more verbose logging in the log files, I don't think we need read/write stats.

Comment 1 Ross Burton 2019-01-03 20:09:21 UTC

Also:

  Installing       : perl-doc-5.24.4-r0.mips64                          315/422
D: ========== +++ perl-doc-5.24.4-r0 mips64-linux 0x0
D: perl-doc-5.24.4-r0.mips64: Header SHA256 digest: OK
D: perl-doc-5.24.4-r0.mips64: Header SHA1 digest: OK
D:   install: perl-doc-5.24.4-r0.mips64 has 12 files
D: ========== Directories not explicitly included in package:
D:          0 /
D: ==========
D: create     040755  1 (   0,   0)     0 /usr
D: create     040755  1 (   0,   0)     0 /usr/lib
D: skip       040755  1 (   0,   0)     0 /usr/lib/perl
D: skip       040755  1 (   0,   0)     0 /usr/lib/perl/5.24.4
D: create     040755  1 (   0,   0)     0 /usr/lib/perl/5.24.4/Encode
D: create     100444  1 (   0,   0)  3967 /usr/lib/perl/5.24.4/Encode/encode.h;5c2e694b
D: skip       040755  1 (   0,   0)     0 /usr/lib/perl/5.24.4/ExtUtils
D: create     100444  1 (   0,   0)   971 /usr/lib/perl/5.24.4/ExtUtils/MANIFEST.SKIP;5c2e694b
D: create     100444  1 (   0,   0) 11047 /usr/lib/perl/5.24.4/ExtUtils/typemap;5c2e694b
D: create     100444  1 (   0,   0)  5071 /usr/lib/perl/5.24.4/ExtUtils/xsubpp;5c2e694b
D: skip       040755  1 (   0,   0)     0 /usr/lib/perl/5.24.4/unicore
D: create     100444  1 (   0,   0)     6 /usr/lib/perl/5.24.4/unicore/version;5c2e694b
D: adding "perl-doc" to Name index.
D: adding 12 entries to Basenames index.
D: adding "doc" to Group index.
D: adding 4 entries to Requirename index.
D: adding 2 entries to Providename index.
D: adding 8 entries to Dirnames index.
D: adding 1 entries to Installtid index.
D: adding 1 entries to Sigmd5 index.
D: adding "a73dd55fb9ad0516d5300a18e298d69675a7ef32" to Sha1header index.

fdio:       6 reads,     7260 total bytes in 0.000019 secs
ufdio:       1 writes,      214 total bytes in 0.000006 secs
fdio:      25 reads,      976 total bytes in 0.000105 secs

Comment 2 Mark Hatle 2019-01-07 17:43:47 UTC

These messages come from enabling verbose modes during installation.  The more '-v' options, the more verbose the system gets.

Likely this is due to -vv or -vvv.

Lower the number of -v options passed to RPM, and the verbose output will decrease.

Comment 3 Ross Burton 2019-01-10 15:41:57 UTC

From memory we added more debugging to get the postinst failure output.  Can we patch rpm to change that output from debug to something like a warning, and then reduce the debug level?

Comment 4 Mark Hatle 2019-01-10 16:13:43 UTC

RPM has different debug levels specified.  I'd suggest either lowering the debug level for the post-installs, or raising the debug level of the items you don't care about.. (former is likely much easier.)