On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 2:12 PM Alex Kiernan via
lists.openembedded.org <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 6:21 AM Xu, Lizhi via lists.openembedded.org
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > tzdata.bb by default pulls in all possible timezone data packages which
> > increases size of the final root filesystem considerably.
> > The customer would like to have extra timezones configurable so that only
> > tzdata-core is chosen by default and rest of the zones are optional.
> > This change would make the fs size a lot smaller.
> >
> > Comparison of customized package volume before and after:
> > When TZ_PACKAGES contains all tzdata packets, the image size of tzdata is 
> > 7.4MB.
> > The difference in mirror size between the two is 7MB.
> >
> > When TZ_PACKAGES only retains one tzdata-core, the image size generated by
> > tzdata is 320KB.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lizhi Xu <[email protected]>
>
> I get what you're trying to do, but this looks horrid. How about
> splitting into multiple packages based on top level directory (plus
> the few which sit in the top level directory) using a new
> PACKAGESPLITFUNCS so you don't have to hardcode the list of packages?
>

Foolishly, I didn't actually look at what was in the tzdata recipe
first and it already splits things... I'm lost, can't you just remove
things from TZ_PACKAGES to get what you're after?

-- 
Alex Kiernan
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