Bug#779228: lintian: Group processing can cause excessive disk usage
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 19:05:38 +0100 Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.30+deb8u3
> Severity: important
>
> Hi,
>
> Lintian will process all packages built from the same source/version
> together. This currently implies that all related packages must be
> unpacked fully at the same time. Unfortunately, for some package
> groups this can become extremely excessive.
>
> Consider libreoffice:
> * It builds over 100 binary packages (200 when checking 2 architectures)
> * Some of them are >= 2GBs in size unpacked in the lab.
> * The source itself is >= 3GB unpacked in the lab.
>
> On lindsay.d.o I found it to be using 12GB before dying with "No more
> space left on device".
>
> For now, I have asked DSA for more disk space and have made lintian
> use throw-away labs.
>
> ~Niels
>
>
Lintain/2.5.44 will behave slightly better on archive-wide runs (with
throw-away / temp labs). This is due to it fully cleaning finished
entries (4d5acdc) in temporary labs. Therefore it will no longer
accumulate disk usage from each group.
That said, the main issue remains unsolved.
Thanks,
~Niels
Reply to: