Op 4 aug. 2012, om 21:37 heeft Andreas Müller <[email protected]> 
het volgende geschreven:

> On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Koen Kooi <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Op 4 aug. 2012, om 16:01 heeft Laurentiu Palcu <[email protected]> 
>> het volgende geschreven:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 08/04/2012 12:29 PM, Andreas Müller wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Laurentiu Palcu
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 08/04/2012 02:22 AM, Andreas Müller wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Laurentiu Palcu
>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> This will improve first boot time because building the icon cache is
>>>>>>> done on host, with more processing power than the target.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Laurentiu Palcu <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>> meta/classes/gtk-icon-cache.bbclass |   10 ++--------
>>>>>>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> diff --git a/meta/classes/gtk-icon-cache.bbclass 
>>>>>>> b/meta/classes/gtk-icon-cache.bbclass
>>>>>>> index 01fb2f3..2d82c54 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/meta/classes/gtk-icon-cache.bbclass
>>>>>>> +++ b/meta/classes/gtk-icon-cache.bbclass
>>>>>>> @@ -1,18 +1,12 @@
>>>>>>> FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/icons/hicolor"
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -DEPENDS += "${@['hicolor-icon-theme', '']['${BPN}' == 
>>>>>>> 'hicolor-icon-theme']}"
>>>>>>> +DEPENDS += "${@['hicolor-icon-theme', '']['${BPN}' == 
>>>>>>> 'hicolor-icon-theme']} gtk+-native"
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -# This could run on the host as icon cache files are architecture 
>>>>>>> independent,
>>>>>>> -# but there is no gtk-update-icon-cache built natively.
>>>>>>> gtk_icon_cache_postinst() {
>>>>>>> -if [ "x$D" != "x" ]; then
>>>>>>> -        exit 1
>>>>>>> -fi
>>>>>>> -
>>>>>>> # Update the pixbuf loaders in case they haven't been registered yet
>>>>>>> GDK_PIXBUF_MODULEDIR=${libdir}/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders 
>>>>>>> gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -for icondir in /usr/share/icons/* ; do
>>>>>>> +for icondir in $D/usr/share/icons/* ; do
>>>>>>>    if [ -d $icondir ] ; then
>>>>>>>        gtk-update-icon-cache -fqt  $icondir
>>>>>>>    fi
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> 1.7.9.5
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Long time ago there was a patch introducing gtk-icon-cache to be only
>>>>>> run once on the machine [1] and I am still using that. At that time I
>>>>>> was asked for a more generic approach. Now I ask:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 1. Wouldn't it be better to have gtk-icon-cache run once even on host
>>>>> But this is what these patches do. Make gtk-update-icon-cache run on
>>>>> host, when the target rootfs is constructed, rather than running it on
>>>>> target, at first boot.
>>>> As far as I can see gtk-icon-cache is run for each package - how much
>>>> extra build time at do_rootfs is to expect?
>>> I didn't measure it. But I didn't notice do_roofts task taking a lot
>>> more than it took previously. However, host machines these days have
>>> lots of MHz under the hood, multiple cores and quite a lot of RAM,
>>> compared to target machines. So, I do believe that waiting for some
>>> extra tens of seconds at build time is a trade-off we can live with,
>>> compared to waiting entire minutes for the target's first boot.
>> 
>> it's about 90 minutes on first boot for beaglebone :)
> 
> And less than 3min on overo with the patches we sent (and my xfce
> image is full of gtk-icon-update). Don't misunderstand me: I agree on
> doing things like this on host if possible. But for me the main time
> waiting on a new image is do_rootfs and I just suggest to think about
> having these tasks run only once - but we can do this later or never.
> A bit off topic: As far as I can remember there were times when it was
> a no-go having gtk-native in oe-core. I hope they are over...

I never bought the arguments against gtk-native, so I hope common sense 
prevails and we can do the icon-cache stuff on the host. 
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