[OE-core] [RFC 0/7] Postinstall improvements

[Andreas Müller]

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Andreas Müller
<schnitzeltony at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Andreas Müller
> <schnitzeltony at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Laurentiu Palcu
>> <laurentiu.palcu at intel.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 09/20/2012 07:12 PM, Andreas Müller wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Andreas Müller
>>>> <schnitzeltony at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Laurentiu Palcu
>>>>> <laurentiu.palcu at intel.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 09/19/2012 04:41 PM, Andreas Müller wrote:
>>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Laurentiu Palcu
>>>>>>> <laurentiu.palcu at intel.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It's been quite a long time since I sent the first version of postinstall
>>>>>>>> improvements which, after some debate, we decided it needed run-once
>>>>>>>> support of postinst scriptlets on host. This patcheset (RFC actually) adds
>>>>>>>> that.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So, in order to achieve this goal I took advantage of
>>>>>>>> ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND variable. Basically, if running some postinst
>>>>>>>> scriptlets is time consuming (even on host) and execute repeatedly,
>>>>>>>> then we can postpone the running and run the scriplet just once. The idea is
>>>>>>>> to put the scriptlet in the ${WORKDIR}/intercept_scripts directory. When the
>>>>>>>> ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND is executed, it will pick up all the scripts in
>>>>>>>> this directory and execute them.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This actual patchset does the above for the gtk icon cache generation which
>>>>>>>> takes a very long time to run on target and even on some hosts.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The people willing to give this patchset a test, are most than welcome. Also,
>>>>>>>> please feel free to review.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> Laurentiu
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks for taking care. I will give it a test tonight and hope to have
>>>>>>> results tomorrow.
>>>>>> It would be great if you could give it a try and let me know your results.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I removed gtk-native append in meta-oe, build from scratch and tested
>>>>> the image. No issues so far - seems you have done a great job -
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>> Aargh I really would like to consider this done but I found suspicious
>>>> when browsing on the machine with the new image (hicolor- and
>>>> gnome-icon-theme installed):
>>>>
>>>> * in the folder /usr/share/icons/gnome *no* icon-theme.cache is found
>>>> * /usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache is there but it has the
>>>> date of 01.01.2000 (have no rtc backup on the machine). I would expect
>>>> this file to have build host's date.
>>>>
>>>> So I checked the contents on the build machine in image's rootfs:
>>>>
>>>> * in the folder /usr/share/icons/gnome *no* icon-theme.cache is found
>>>> * /usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache is there but has only
>>>> 64,5KB (the version on the machine is 2,3MB!!).
>>> Did you have any chance to debug the issue on your setup? I tried to
>>> replicate your environment but I failed. Lots of build errors, so I gave
>>> up. It would have taken me more time to make your setup work than
>>> debugging the real problem.
>>>
>>> Another alternative would be for you to prepare a tarball with all the
>>> repos and configs that you use and put it somewhere where I can take it.
>>> It would be easier for me to directly start debugging your issue.
>>>
>> Sorry but I am occupied by other issues at the moment. Hope to find
>> time at the weekend to add some debug messages to see what's going on.
>>
> Oh it's that simple: run_intercept_scriptlets is not called here (I
> don't know what caused 'mini hicolor-icon-theme's cache)! You can
> reproduce that e.g. by enabling buildhistory.
>
> I simply replaced in image.bbclass
>
> ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND ?= "run_intercept_scriptlets"
> by
> ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND =+ "run_intercept_scriptlets;"
>
> an now see larger caches for all my icon themes. But the sizes are
> still different from those mentioned above. Will run-test tomorrow.
>
> Andreas
Hey Laurentiu,

With the minor change mentioned above I tested all my working images
without issues. Thanks for taking care and speeding up first boot.

Andreas