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

[Andreas Müller]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Laurentiu Palcu
<laurentiu.palcu at intel.com> wrote:
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> 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:
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>>>> 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):
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>> * 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:
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>> * 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.

Andreas