On 09.09.2011 19:22, Peter Naulls wrote:
> On 09/09/2011 10:02 AM, Manuel Munz wrote:
> 
>> But why is CLEAN_IPKG not
>> selected by default? And can we have a backport of this to backfire?
> 
> Why should it be?  If you want it on, select it.  It's the same option
> from menuconfig.

Ok, i've checked it a bit more and you're right, it shouldn't be. But
the IB should always delete the package list though. Thanks to jow for
commiting this so fast [1].

> I don't really understand your explanation here, but I think you'll find
> that building from "make dirclean" and then just selecting the profile
> you want, you'll only get one target set of images in imagebuilder
> at the end.  It appears that if you previously build kernels for other
> systems, those will get included in image builder, and will still get
> built.

Ok, i had problems understanding your usecase, too ;)
What i do is the following: I build openwrt for one target (well, its
several, but lets simplify it and say i build for ar71xx) and select the
default profile. Then i copy the imagebuilder on a host which has a
webinterface that allows users to create custom images [2]. There the
user can select which profile he wants to use. Now lets say the user
selects the profile UBNTRS. Without the change the IB builds all images
for ar71xx and the user ends up with a list of maybe 70 or more files.
This is confusing and it also wastes resources on the buildserver. With
the patch only the images needed for Routerstations are build.

I'm not completely sure if the patch will have negative consequences
somewhere, but besides ar71xx i also offer brcm63xx, atheros and
brcm47xx imagebuilders and these still work well.

Hope that made it a bit clearer.

This last thing is still uncommited because it was in discussion. I'd
like to hear what others, especially felix think about the change.

Regards, soma


[1] https://dev.openwrt.org/changeset/28205/
[2] http://imagebuilder.augsburg.freifunk.net/cgi-bin/newkit/

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