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

[Andreas Müller]

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!!).


Andreas