[Openembedded-architecture] RFC: RM_OLD_IMAGE as default behaviour

[Martin Jansa]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 04:53:23PM +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 03:45:45PM +0200, Philip Balister wrote:
> > I don't care. Someone did ask how to remove old images during the BoF,
> > so at least one user would prefer the be default.
> 
> Same here.
> 
> Where we care about the build artifacts (most our jenkins builds), then
> we move them after the build to somewhere else already.
> 
> For local incremental builds it's already hard to match DATETIME with
> the metadata used to create the image, so it will encourage people to
> move them somewhere else with some additional name to distinguish them.
> 
> But I've noticed one strange behavior that qemuboot.conf file seems
> being kept in incremental images, so I have multiple copies of qemuboot.conf
> and only one image next to it - I'll double check if it's only my environment
> or the same happens with default nodistro build as well.
> 
> core-image-minimal-qemux86.hdddirect
> core-image-minimal-qemux86-master-20161012105326.qemuboot.conf
> core-image-minimal-qemux86-master-20161012111034.qemuboot.conf
> core-image-minimal-qemux86-master-20161012120038.qemuboot.conf
> core-image-minimal-qemux86-master-20161012120336.qemuboot.conf
> core-image-minimal-qemux86-master-20161012134817.qemuboot.conf
> core-image-minimal-qemux86-master-20161012144327.ext4
> core-image-minimal-qemux86-master-20161012144327.hdddirect
> core-image-minimal-qemux86-master-20161012144327.manifest
> core-image-minimal-qemux86-master-20161012144327.qemuboot.conf
> core-image-minimal-qemux86-master-20161012144327.tar.gz
> core-image-minimal-qemux86-master-20161012144327.vmdk
> core-image-minimal-qemux86.qemuboot.conf
> core-image-minimal-qemux86.rootfs.ext4
> core-image-minimal-qemux86.rootfs.manifest
> core-image-minimal-qemux86.rootfs.tar.gz
> core-image-minimal-qemux86.vmdk

Verified with nodistro oe-core only, the *.qemuboot.conf files are kept
there even when other image artifacts are removed.

Can we please make it consistent? The qemuboot.conf is the most useless
one to keep IMHO.

> > On 10/12/2016 03:21 PM, Joshua Lock wrote:
> > > tl;dr: RM_OLD_IMAGE behaviour is effectively enabled by default in
> > > master/morty — any objections?
> > > 
> > > Around a month ago a change landed in OE-Core to put image deployment
> > > under sstate control[1]. 
> > > 
> > > This had a side-effect of removing old images from DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE
> > > when a new image is built[2], effectively making RM_OLD_IMAGE[3] the
> > > default behaviour and making that variable redundant.
> > > 
> > > Several of us run with RM_OLD_IMAGE and didn't notice the change in
> > > behaviour, others noticed and assumed it was an intended side-effect of
> > > the change. 
> > > 
> > > This is arguably a significant behaviour change so I wanted to ensure
> > > it was more visible before we tag a release with this behaviour.
> > > 
> > > Do folks have strong opinions on whether we should revert to the
> > > previous behaviour of not removing images (also sdk's and toolchains)
> > > when deploying a new version, or whether we should keep the new
> > > behaviour, document it and remove the RM_OLD_IMAGE variable? Or perhaps
> > > something else entirely?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Joshua
> > > 
> > > 1. http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=d54339d4b1a
> > > 7e884de636f6325ca60409ebd95ff
> > > 2. https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10419
> > > 3. http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.1/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#var-
> > > RM_OLD_IMAGE
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> Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com



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