2010/8/5 Richard Purdie <[email protected]>: > On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 13:12 +0200, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: >> Sounds good to me. Not sure whether I have time to try it out on short >> term. Too much other things at hand. >> >> One small concern: >> Would it in your proposal be possible to disable packaged staging? >> I think it would be nice if a user (in local.conf or so) could decide >> on whether he wants to spent build time and space on this. > > Technically, disabling would be possible but you lose some important > benefits such as when enabled, cleaning a package will remove whatever > it put into staging.
Ah ok, that is a benefit I would not like to give up. > > One of our problems in OE is too many code paths. I'd like to see us try > and minimise that problem. Disk space is cheap and this code shouldn't > take much more time. Space is less of an issue than time. An additonal task does consume some time, if only to get started > > Once combined with checksums, it should actually save people large > amounts of time as needing to rebuild from scratch should be a think of > the patch (unless you make a change effecting everything in which case > you'd expect it). Well one of the scenario's I was thinking of when I had this in mind was an autobuilder which builds images from scratch for verification purposes. But I understand your concern about paths. Indeed currently there are sometimes unexpected side effects Frans _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
