Hi Nicolas, Thank you for the advice, that would work for files outside the npm packages!
Hopefully there's a way to improve npm install speed too, I was hoping there was a way to just run npm install instead of going through the yocto npm process (which takes 30 mins vs < 1 min that npm takesi -- Alessandro Tagliapietra On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 2:18 AM Nicolas Jeker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2021-04-26 at 16:29 -0700, Alessandro Tagliapietra wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Hi Alessandro, > > > I'm making an image that includes the node-red recipe from meta-iot- > > cloud. > > The whole process takes about 30+ minutes for that recipe alone (most > > of the time spent in do_configure). > > Now I want to override the recipe systemd service file and create a > > nodered user. Every time I change my bbappend file I have to wait 30+ > > minutes to have the result even for a small systemd file change. > > > > Is it possible to speed up the process somehow? > > > > I never worked with node-red in yocto, so I can't speak specifically > for that, but I encountered similar situations before. Here is what I > usually do when I need to change a file in a recipe that takes a really > long time to compile or triggers a rebuild of a ton of other recipes. > > This only works for files that don't need to be compiled, like > configuration files, systemd service files, udev rules etc. I usually > replace the file in the rootfs directly on the device (or boot from NFS > and edit the file in the NFS export). For example if I need to change a > systemd service file, I change the file on my host, copy it with scp to > the device and check if everything is working as expected. When I'm > finished, I reintegrate my edits with a bbappend file and check again > if it works. > > > Thanks in advance > >
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