On Fri, 2014-11-14 at 23:37 -0600, Peter A. Bigot wrote: > The useradd, groupadd, and groupmems commands in useradd.bbclass are > executed in a loop with up to 10 failed attempts before they give up. > This appears to have always been the case, as long as that file has been > present. > > Is there any reason why an initial failed attempt to execute one of > these commands would be expected to succeed on retry, other than because > delaying failure gives a chance for concurrently executing task to > complete and so satisfy a dependency?
Another recipe can be altering the files and holding the lock so in theory, yes, the retries can help. Cheers, Richard -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
