[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] core-image-sato.bb: increase free space size
Saul Wold
sgw at linux.intel.com
Wed Apr 3 15:28:37 UTC 2013
On 04/02/2013 11:16 PM, Qi.Chen at windriver.com wrote:
> From: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com>
>
> Sato images, by default, have about 100M free space. This is not enough
> and it blocks automatic testing.
>
> This patch fixes this problem by setting the default value of
> IMAGE_OVERHEAD_FACTOR to "2.0" in the sato image recipe.
>
We need to think hard about this one, we have a couple of conflicting
interests here with the amount of space.
The Poky distro and core-image-sato are examples of for the community
and developers to use, we want to set good examples where ever possible.
One of the intentions of core-image-sato is to show a compact image with
a graphical user interface, so having a minimal, but usable amount of
free space is important. We don't want someone new to look at this and
see a large image as it might put them off the project without
understanding the tune-ability. This is an embedded environment, not a
desktop with a large disk, we want to share that message.
Another goal of the Poky distro is to create something that is testable
and automated testing is important part of this. I read the bug report
and commented on it as well. Is there a way to clean-up after the
tests? Are single tests consuming the 100M available? Is it slowly
accumulating tmp space?
What other options can we do here? Do we need to consider a different
image for testing? Or build 2 images similarly one with extra space?
We need to think about the different scenarios and usage.
Thanks
Sau!
> [YOCTO #4109]
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com>
> ---
> meta/recipes-sato/images/core-image-sato.bb | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/images/core-image-sato.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/images/core-image-sato.bb
> index e3246d2..4b4e595 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-sato/images/core-image-sato.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-sato/images/core-image-sato.bb
> @@ -9,3 +9,7 @@ LICENSE = "MIT"
> inherit core-image
>
> IMAGE_INSTALL += "packagegroup-core-x11-sato-games"
> +
> +# Increase the default value of IMAGE_OVERHEAD_FACTOR from "1.3" to "2.0"
> +# to increase the free space size in sato images.
> +IMAGE_OVERHEAD_FACTOR ?= "2.0"
>
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