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

[Martin Jansa]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 09:15:02PM +0300, Laurentiu Palcu 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
> Any special reason you removed it?

That BBCLASSEXTEND was in meta-oe for long time (for gtk+3):

http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-commits/2012-January/062622.html

Last time I've tried to merge that .bbappend to oe-core it was refused:
http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2012-March/019648.html

But now it's in oe-core and there is no reason to keep it in meta-oe too.

Cheers,

> 
> >> 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):
> Let's hope we'll have it done soon. Thanks a lot for testing it. Can you
> instruct me what image did you use and give some more details in order
> to debug it on my side?
> 
> > 
> > * 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
> That's weird... You could add some debug info in the intercept script
> itself to see if it really scans the gnome directory and if there are
> any errors.
> 
> > * /usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache is there but has only
> > 64,5KB (the version on the machine is 2,3MB!!).
> On my build machine (I used Sato image) the icon-theme.cache has 2.5MB.
> There must be something wrong somewhere... At least this directory
> should have been cached properly.
> 
> If you give all the details I asked above, I'll give it a try myself.
> > 
> > 
> > Andreas
> > 
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