[yocto] [Openembedded-architecture] Sum up - Proposal: dealing with language-specific build tools/dependency management tools

[Alexander Kanavin]

On 03/16/2017 12:48 PM, Jack Mitchell wrote:

> An issue with not having separate recipes is going to cause problems
> with OTA package updates. I currently have a node package that I
> maintain for a client and it's so big (excess of 30,000 files with all
> deps) that we have to have a special update procedure of uninstalling
> the package, re-installing the new version and then performing a system
> update. A package update with 30,000 files on a quad core fast arm64
> chip takes upwards of 40 minutes. It would be fantastic, if only the
> core node application and changed dependencies could be updated.
>
> Would it be possible to use something similar to the 'auto-package'
> stuff we already have to split out the inner package dependencies and
> have specific packages for each dependency but not a separate recipe?

Yes, certainly. In fact, I think npm.bbclass already does it.

Alex