Bug#932296: qa.debian.org: getwatch filling up /tmp
On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 02:03:13PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> Control: severity -1 serious
>
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 01:45:27PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 10:11:39PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > > On 17/07/19 at 14:01 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > > > something in udd seems to extract entire source packages to
> > > > /tmp/getwatch.*. This fills up the disk. Please make it not do that.
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Thanks for reporting.
> > >
> > > It needs to extract the source packages to get the watch file. I don't
> > > think there's a way to ask dpkg-source to only extract a single file,
> > > and I don't want to re-implement dpkg-source.
> > >
> > It would be a single call to tar or patch though, which doesn't seem
> > like a huge amount of effort.
> >
> > > Reviewing the code, there was a path where the tmp dir was not removed.
> > > I've fixed that. I'm not 100% sure this fixes everything, but it should
> > > clearly help.
> > >
> > There were quite a few getwatch temp dirs before I rebooted ullmann just
> > now because it was out of space.
> >
> > > However, I also note that /tmp is on /, and / is quite small (only 5.3
> > > GB remaining). Would it be possible to add some disk space for /tmp or /
> > > on ullmann?
> > >
> > I'd dispute the "quite small" bit, extracting watch files shouldn't need
> > more than 5g. But you could also put your temp files somewhere under
> > /srv?
> >
> This happened again. If it won't get fixed I'll go ahead and disable that job.
>
Done now, removed the "upstream" importer from the config file.
Cheers,
Julien
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