[yocto] Reducing nightly/release build artifacts.

[Flanagan, Elizabeth]

A list of exactly what files you use for QA would be grand.

We can use http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/pub/nightly/20140326-1/
as our base.

-b

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> 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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Elizabeth Flanagan
Yocto Project
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