Can't Build qt5 with slackrepo in VM
 

I am trying to build qt5 using slackrepo and the SBo build script inside a virtualbox VM.

I get the following error:

There are hundreds of lines like this in the build.log. There is plenty of space on the vdi. The only explanation I can think of is that slackrepo is using tmpfs and it is filling up.

The VM has 4 GB RAM, 30GB vdi, 4GB swap which leaves 26GB for the file system. About 15GB are free. Default size of tmpfs is 1/2 RAM (2GB).

I ran the slackBuild without slackrepo and the source untars without a problem. The expanded source size is 1.8GB, close to the size of tmpfs.

I tried disabling tmpfs and I tried increasing its size. Neither worked. Maybe that means tmpfs is not the problem or maybe I did it wrong?

Is there someway to tell slackrepo to not use tmpfs so I can tell for sure if that is the problem?

Do you have /tmp/ as tmpfs? If so, that is likely your problem. All of the extracting and building occurs in /tmp/, starting with copying the source over and extracting it.

You could try changing the following entry in your /etc/slackrepo/slackrepo_SBo.conf file to a place on your drive that isn't tmpfs.

I do know that slackrepo in a VM can handle building qt5 without issue because I recently did it on my laptop.

can you build it on your real system then get the tzx ( i think its called. could be txz .. ) then install it on the VM OS?

or maybe Alien Bob got one already built you can use.

If you do that, slackrepo will complain that the host system is dirty and you won't get proper dependencies listed in your packages. slackrepo relies on the host system being "clean" (in that there are no additional packages installed except for slackrepo itself), so if you start manually installing packages, you're likely to cause yourself some grief in the future.

what HUH?
wait...
slackrepo is an independent of and not a 'nick name' for slacks mirrors. Ok.
I googled it to update my data base

I don't think that will help. slackrepo uses a change root environment. I am using all defaults. I did not mount tmpfs on /tmp. You will see below what slackrepo mounts.

That is the only relevant line in my fstab file.

I just changed the ram for the VM to 6GB (the host only has 8GB). tar stopped giving "No space left on device" error and qt5 is compiling. My estimate is 1.5 to 2 hours to finish.

Except for the 1st line, slackrepo is mounting all that stuff and is clearly using tmpfs. I would like to be able to turn that feature off. IIRC, chromium requires 12GB of space. I would never be able to compile it on this machine using tmpfs.

We're talking about slackrepo not slackpkg. slackrepo requires a clean environment so when you build packages, it doesn't have any errant dependencies that you don't specifically specify. Then you can use a repo tool that supports dependencies and install everything in one shot on a different computer.

Oh, this is the newer stuff that David recently added. I'm not using that version yet. The version I use doesn't use a tmpfs. This is the version I'm using:

Maybe David will see this thread and be able to provide some assistance.

you should have read a little more
then noticed that I stopped posing in here.

I'm out(again): cause: not qualified for this question.

I don't know why you correct yourself in the middle of your posts. It makes it difficult to know what point you're trying to get across when you adjust things halfway through your posts. I stopped reading after you mentioned slackpkg since they weren't the same thing.

If you want to keep the text you posted but correct information you already typed, you can use [strike][/strike] to strike out your test. It makes it much easier for people to follow what you're typing.

it was already posted can't do take backs in here.. they really need a how to on that in here too ....

here let me just wipe it but one part.. even this is a screwy post now.

hi, yes the newest version of slackrepo in git now uses tmpfs during the build, this is experimental and (especially after your feedback) I'll be providing some way of turning it off and making it more responsive to the size of what it's building. Sorry this bit you. I should have a fixed version in the next couple of days; I'll post again here when it's done.

Or a quick fix would be to provide say 10Gb of swap.

There appears to be something wrong with that file.

The only change I made was to change the VERSION in the slackBuild before running it.

I don't think that could cause a missing directory?

You may want to try the SlackBuild from that git version (use the raw link to directly download it).

https://github.com/idlemoor/slackrep...epo.SlackBuild

If that still kicks out errors, I'll try to work up a revised SlackBuild later tonight or tomorrow (depending on how soon we go to bed tonight -- it's 11PM now).

EDIT: Another option is to just grab the 2.0rc1 package from my server. This is the version I downloaded from his dropbox before dropbox broke public folders, which broke his link.

http://bassmadrigal.tk/temp/slackrep...arch-1_dbs.txz

I have the 0.2.0rc1 source so I used that. I used it to build qt5. It took forever in the VM (5.5 hrs).

Could be worse... on my low-power HTPC, it was taking over 24 hours compiling for me to get an error. That was fun to try and troubleshoot (after a week of attempts, I finally gave up).