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

[Laurentiu Palcu]

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.

Thanks,
Laurentiu
> 
> 
> Andreas
> 
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