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DESCRIPTION = "rosclean: cleanup filesystem resources (e.g. log files)"
SECTION = "devel"
LICENSE = "BSD"
LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://package.xml;beginline=8;endline=8;md5=d566ef916e9dedc494f5f793a6690ba5"
require ros.inc
ROS_PKG_SUBDIR = "tools"
rosclean: simplifying run-time dependencies When roslaunch is started, it checks the file size of the local log directory by calling: disk_usage = rosclean.get_disk_usage(d) [1] The function `get_disk_usage` [2] in rosclean creates a subprocess and calls `du -sb` on Linux systems (cf. [3]). However, the `du` command, which busybox usually provides on an embedded Linux image, does not support the `-b` option, and only the `du` command from the coreutils [4] supports this option. This issue was first reported in April 2013 on the meta-ros issue tracker [5]. Hence, on the first iteration of this issue, the commit db0c8d5c [6] simply adds the dependency on coreutils to roslaunch. However, this has certain disadvantages: - coreutils is licensed under GPLv3 and must not be deployed in a product, which is massively distributed to customers. - coreutils has larger file-system foot print than busybox and makes the minimal Linux images considerably larger. As a fortuitous circumstance, Alexis Ballier [7] had already observed this disadvantage and provides a patch [8, 9] that makes `get_disk_usage` use `du -k`, which works with busybox and coreutils. So, on the second iteration of this issue, this commit here patches rosclean's `get_disk_usage` function with the aforementioned patch. This slightly modifies the semantics of this function. However, I believe this plays only a minor role for the overall intended functionality to check if the log usage has reached a critical file-size limit, and it allows us to remove the dependency on coreutils, which is much more critical. Andreas Baak reported the disadvantages of the previous solution, which triggered the re-investigation. The current resolution has been discussed and worked out in collaboration with Andreas Baak. [1] https://github.com/ros/ros_comm/blob/9da29441f32575deb90ee73c9602a5527aacc966/tools/roslaunch/src/roslaunch/rlutil.py#L63 [2] https://github.com/ros/ros/blob/c6e91f9af1410ef183cfa273a7395f896d2d2a1f/tools/rosclean/src/rosclean/__init__.py#L120 [3] https://github.com/ros/ros/blob/c6e91f9af1410ef183cfa273a7395f896d2d2a1f/tools/rosclean/src/rosclean/__init__.py#L130 [4] http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.23.bb?h=master [5] https://github.com/bmwcarit/meta-ros/issues/60 [6] https://github.com/bmwcarit/meta-ros/commit/db0c8d5cd1700174888071a6f617d307a2e050e0 [7] https://github.com/aballier [8] https://github.com/ros/ros/pull/76 [9] https://github.com/aballier/ros/commit/bbf1f945c7e3a54efca912d38fe8b1b2f5b63988 Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@oss.bmw-carit.de> Signed-off-by: Andreas Baak <andreas.baak@bmw-carit.de>
2015-03-02 17:54:57 +08:00
SRC_URI += "file://0001-rosclean-Use-du-sk-1024-on-Linux-for-getting-disk-us.patch;striplevel=3"