[OE-core] krogoth's core-image-minimal is much bigger than jethro's

[Gary Thomas]

On 2016-05-13 09:07, Andrea Adami wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:48 AM, Robert Yang <liezhi.yang at windriver.com> wrote:
>>
>> * For ext4:
>>    11M -> 26M
>>    The similar to vmdk, qcow2 and iso.
>>
>> * For tar.bz2:
>>    2.7M -> 4.5M
>>
>> The main problem is eudev-hwdb which would be 12M after installed, jethro
>> doesn't use this, but udev by default, and it's gone in krogoth.
>> $ du -sh core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/rootfs/etc/udev/*
>> 0        core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/rootfs/etc/udev/cache.data
>> 6.4M     core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/rootfs/etc/udev/hwdb.bin
>> 5.2M     core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/rootfs/etc/udev/hwdb.d
>> 8.0K     core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/rootfs/etc/udev/rules.d
>> 4.0K     core-image-minimal/1.0-r0/rootfs/etc/udev/udev.conf
>>
>> Is there an easier way to fix this problem, please ? It's not a good
>> news for the user who uses core-imag-minimal/udev when they want to
>> upgrade to krogoth. And this would hurt the small device which uses
>> udev.
>>
>
> Somehow we have to explicitely opt-out:
>
> +BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS += "eudev-hwdb"
>
> IMHO for embedded devices it would be better to disable by default and
> let the distro/machine add a specific RRECOMMEND.

+1

>
> Regards
> Andrea
>
>>
>> The conf is:
>> MACHINE = "qemux86-64"
>> DISTRO = "poky"
>> PACKAGE_CLASSES = "package_rpm"
>> EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES = "debug-tweaks"
>> USER_CLASSES = "buildstats image-mklibs"
>>
>> $ bitbake core-image-minimal
>>
>> For jethro:
>> $ ls -lh core-image-minimal-qemux86-64-20160513061306.rootfs.ext4
>> 11M  core-image-minimal-qemux86-64-20160513061306.rootfs.ext4
>> $ du -sh core-image-minimal-qemux86-64-20160513061306.rootfs.ext4
>> 7.9M core-image-minimal-qemux86-64-20160513061306.rootfs.ext4
>>
>> For krogoth:
>>
>> $ ls -lh core-image-minimal-qemux86-64-20160513061459.rootfs.ext4
>> 26M core-image-minimal-qemux86-64-20160513061459.rootfs.ext4
>>
>> $ du -sh core-image-minimal-qemux86-64-20160513061459.rootfs.ext4
>> core-image-minimal-qemux86-64-20160513061459.rootfs.ext4
>>
>> --
>> Thanks
>>
>> Robert
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