[yocto] Reducing nightly/release build artifacts.

[Otavio Salvador]

Hello Beth,

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Flanagan, Elizabeth
<elizabeth.flanagan at intel.com> wrote:
> I'd like to start looking at reducing the number of artifacts we're
> releasing both for our nightly builds (which is at 250,000 artifacts
> and .25 TB!) and releases.
>
> What I'm thinking is this:
>
> Reduce nightly:
> - Reduce ADT-REPO to just qemu* arches for all builds
> - If every QA team could provide me a list of what files they actually
> need I could reduce the published artifacts to *just* what is needed.
>
> Reduce releases:
> - Reduce ADT-REPO to just qemu
> - Don't release ipk/rpm/debs. Continue to release ipks through ADT
> - Don't release machines outside of BSP tarball /binary directory
>
> If folks who do QA could get me a list of all the files they use, we
> can start removing excess artifacts. I know this is a balance, but I'd
> really like us to start targeting our release artifacts to just the
> things we need.

I fully agree on that.

Is there anything you need specifically from me?

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