[yocto] Reducing size of the weekly build

[Flanagan, Elizabeth]

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 19:58 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
>> On 21 May 2014 17:22, Flanagan, Elizabeth <elizabeth.flanagan at intel.com> wrote:
>> > 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.
>
> We do need to be careful about coverage here. We have seen bugs where
> things failed in deb or rpm but not ipk and maybe only on some
> architectures.
>
> I'm fine with being more selective about what we publish however in the
> builds it may be worth leaving this enabled.

Yeah, I can see that. If we had a world rpm/deb as Ross suggests, I'm
not sure that would actually give us a speed increase, so for now, I'm
ok with leaving what we build alone. But yeah, let's not publish the
rpm/debs.

>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>



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Elizabeth Flanagan
Yocto Project
Build and Release