[OE-core] opkg-make-index cache failing

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.thruhere.net
Fri Nov 25 19:59:06 UTC 2011


Op 25 nov. 2011, om 19:15 heeft Koen Kooi het volgende geschreven:

> 
> Op 25 nov. 2011, om 17:53 heeft Richard Purdie het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 16:38 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>> In OE-classic the opkg-make-index cache was working pretty well,
>>> do_rootfs only spent a few seconds doing opkg-make-index on
>>> incremental builds. In the OE-core world the situation is different,
>>> opkg-make-index will reindex every package on each do_rootfs run, so
>>> after a while building images starts taking *really* long, on my
>>> systemd (work/ on ssd, deploy on rotating media) it now takes
>>> ±7minutes just do refresh the opkg indices.
>>> 
>>> Since I can't blame sstate for this I suspect that pseudo gets in the
>>> way of the naive caching logic. Is there a simple way to turn off
>>> pseudo when running opkg-make-index?
> 
> With a relatively small deploy:
> 
> real	6m14.611s
> user	2m45.909s
> sys	0m43.674s
> 
>> You could try:
>> 
>> PSEUDO_DISABLED=1 opkg-make-index
> 
> real	5m25.920s
> user	2m41.279s
> sys	0m41.681s
> 
>> or even
>> 
>> PSEUDO_UNLOAD=1 opkg-make-index
> 
> real	5m5.699s
> user	2m37.283s
> sys	0m37.508s
> 
> Now I need to double check to see if  the patches are really having effect on the opkg caching instead of just not having pseudo overhead.

Retesting without PSEUDO changes:

real    5m18.412s
user    2m40.736s
sys     0m41.374s

So the PSEUDO changes don't seem to do much :(
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