[yocto] Proposed roadmap and design for Hob improvement

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Yu, Ke <ke.yu at intel.com> wrote:
>> 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.

It would be nice to be able to skip the package generation if the RPM
already exists somewhere. This could provide significant speedup above
what is already provided by sstate-cache. Although other issues might
need to be solved....

-M