[yocto] Reducing nightly/release build artifacts.

[Georgescu, Alexandru C]

Hi,
We need genericx86-64 lsb image. It is used for stress testing.

Regards,
--
Alexandru Georgescu

-----Original Message-----
From: Yi Zhao [mailto:yi.zhao at windriver.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 4:24 AM
To: Flanagan, Elizabeth
Cc: Otavio Salvador; yocto at yoctoproject.org; Georgescu, Alexandru C
Subject: Re: Reducing nightly/release build artifacts.

Hi Beth,


于 2014年03月27日 05:30, Flanagan, Elizabeth 写道:
> 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.

We don't use all qemu-lsb , beagleboard-lsb, routerstationpro-lsb, and p1022ds-lsb artifacts.
For the image type, we don't need minimal-dev and sato-dev.

Thanks,
Yi


>
> -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?
>>
>> --
>> Otavio Salvador                             O.S. Systems
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