[yocto] Reducing size of the weekly build

[Burton, Ross]

Hi Beth,

On 21 May 2014 17:22, Flanagan, Elizabeth <elizabeth.flanagan at intel.com> wrote:
> In an effort to speed up release times, I'm going to remove the deb
> and rpm publishing from the weekly builds. We'll still have ipk
> publishing and we will still generate debs and rpms, but as far as I
> can tell, no one is actually utilizing the debs/rpms.

The QA scripts perform install tests, do they use the published feed,
or another local copy?  Breaking QA's ability to validate the the
package manager actually works would be a problem.

> One thing I'm thinking of and I want some feedback here is setting the
> package type on the main builds to just ipk and running a special
> deb/rpm test being to ensure those package types are functional. This
> should give us a bit of a speed increase for build times, without
> introducing too much risk. Thoughts?

The reduced coverage is something to consider, but if the other builds
were world and also built images then the reduction shouldn't be too
bad.  I wonder what the speed difference between ipk and ipkg+rpm is:
this is probably worth measuring.

Ross