[OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] V2 Incremental image generation(rpm based rootfs)

[Koen Kooi]

Op 31 dec. 2011, om 09:10 heeft Robert Yang het volgende geschreven:

> Incremental image generation, the rootfs would be totally removed and
> re-created in the second generation by default, but with INC_IMAGE_GEN =
> "1", the rootfs would be kept, and will do update(remove/add some pkgs)
> on it.
> NOTE: This is not suggested when you want to create a productive rootfs
> 
> For example:
>  1) Add the follow config option to a conf file:
>     INC_IMAGE_GEN = "1"
> 
>  2) bitbake core-image-sato
>     modify a package
>     bitbake core-image-sato
> 
> The rootfs would not be totally removed and re-created in the second
> generation, it would be simply updated based on the "package".
> 
> Implatation:
> 1) Figure out the pkg which need to be removed or re-installed, then use
> 'rpm -e to remove the old one. Use the rpm's BUILDTIME to determine
> which pkg has been rebuilt.
> 
> 2) Figure out the pkg which is newly added, and use 'rpm -U' to install
> it.
> 
> This only for the rpm based rootfs, I don't know whether we also need
> this for ipk or deb  based rootfs.

If you insist on calling it "INC_IMAGE_GEN" then yes, you need to implement it for every package format.

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