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

[Laurentiu Palcu]

On 10/04/2012 10:16 PM, Andreas Müller wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Andreas for your help with the tests and for finding the issue.
Unfortunately the patches will not be able to get into 1.3 (we're a
little late for that). I'll prepare another patch-set as soon as I'll
find some spare time and, hopefully, we'll get the patches in for 1.4.

Thanks,
Laurentiu

> 
> Andreas
>