[yocto] Proposed roadmap and design for Hob improvement

[Yu, Ke]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: McClintock Matthew-B29882 [mailto:B29882 at freescale.com]
> Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 5:14 AM
> To: Yu, Ke
> Cc: Yocto Project Discussion
> Subject: Re: [yocto] Proposed roadmap and design for Hob improvement
> 
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Yu, Ke <ke.yu at intel.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > As the Yocto 1.2. plan is starting
> (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_1.2_Features ), here I draft a
> proposal for the roadmap and design on HOB improvement task
> (http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1588) . Please review. Any
> feedback is welcome.
> 
> Seems like with the build packages and build image steps separated you could
> skip the build step completly for most packages if we ship or host pre-built build
> packages
> 
> -M

Yes, current design supports this scenario, i.e. if some packages are already pre-built, HOB will notice that and won't build them again.

Regards
Ke