[oe] Creating Rootfs images without packages

[mgundes]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Ulf Samuelsson <ulf_samuelsson at telia.com>wrote:

> On 2011-10-12 14:22, mgundes wrote:
>
>>    Hi,
>>
>>    I think one of the big issue with OE is build time. It does everything
>> for you, so that it takes too much times. I want to minimize build time
>> and
>> realized that OE creates ipkgs for almost every package. If there is a way
>> to prevent creation of ipkgs it would be really good for me. In my
>> opinion,
>> it would be fine for other people too since usually rootfs directory is
>> enough and ipkgs are not frequently used directly by developers.
>>
>>    I have asked in freenode oe room but friends said there no way to do
>> that
>> in OE system. If there is no way to do that in current OE, do you plan to
>> add as a feature?
>>
>>    Thanks,
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
> Question: What do youj mean by long build time.
>                Building everything takes 1.5-2 hours.
>                Doing an incremental build is much less.
>
> When I started, my laptop would take 42 hours to complete the build
> (Calculated, I gave up way before), but then I got a decent machine.
> If you consider 1.5 hours for the first build long, then you still have a
> problem
>
>
     If you can make it 30 minutes shorter, why wouldn't you try, it worths
I think. I wondered and asked what can I do about it, that's it.


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