[oe] [meta-qt5] Dropping tarball recipes from meta-qt5

Thu May 28 13:20:02 UTC 2015

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 11:49:22AM +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Thursday 28 May 2015 12:46:33 Andreas Müller wrote:
> > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> > > I'm still working on finishing 5.5-beta1 recipes for qt5, I'm getting
> > > tired of maintaining 2 sets of patches and 2 versions of recipes in the
> > > same layer branch.
> > > 
> > > 1) Would people mind dropping 5.4 support in master branch (who wants to
> > > use 5.4 can continue to use "fido" branch of meta-qt5, there are patches
> > > for 5.4.2 git recipes as well).
> > 
> > As soon as 5.5 is out I have no problem.
> > 
> > > 2) Would people mind having only git recipes? It will be easier to
> > > update them. Only disadvantages I can think of are the need to clone
> > > from git and not being aligned with exact release for long time (git
> > > recipes usually track newer revisions in e.g. 5.4 branch than 5.4.0 or
> > > 5.4.1 tarbal recipes.
> > 
> > Advantage for me would be that recipe-wise changing versions for test
> > is easier - so no I appreciate.
> 
> Indeed, it sounds reasonable. My only question though would be is there a 
> significant penalty in terms of do_fetch time? We've had complaints about other 
> recipes that fetch large git repos taking ridiculously long to fetch.

Initial fetch is of course a bit longer, but once it's on premirror it's often
even faster to do smallish git pull, then re-ownloading new tarball

I'm very surprised how small qtwebkit repo is, our qtwebkit fork repo has couple GB :).

OE @ ~/build/oe-core $ du -hs downloads/*qt*5.4.1*xz
44M     downloads/qtbase-opensource-src-5.4.1.tar.xz
2.5M    downloads/qtconnectivity-opensource-src-5.4.1.tar.xz
18M     downloads/qtdeclarative-opensource-src-5.4.1.tar.xz
512K    downloads/qtenginio-opensource-src-5.4.1.tar.xz
14M     downloads/qtgraphicaleffects-opensource-src-5.4.1.tar.xz
2.1M    downloads/qtimageformats-opensource-src-5.4.1.tar.xz
3.2M    downloads/qtlocation-opensource-src-5.4.1.tar.xz
3.1M    downloads/qtmultimedia-opensource-src-5.4.1.tar.xz
16M     downloads/qtquick1-opensource-src-5.4.1.tar.xz
924K    downloads/qtquickcontrols-opensource-src-5.4.1.tar.xz
2.5M    downloads/qtscript-opensource-src-5.4.1.tar.xz
2.0M    downloads/qtsensors-opensource-src-5.4.1.tar.xz
252K    downloads/qtserialport-opensource-src-5.4.1.tar.xz
1.7M    downloads/qtsvg-opensource-src-5.4.1.tar.xz
8.9M    downloads/qttools-opensource-src-5.4.1.tar.xz
1.1M    downloads/qttranslations-opensource-src-5.4.1.tar.xz
244K    downloads/qtwayland-opensource-src-5.4.1.tar.xz
84K     downloads/qtwebchannel-opensource-src-5.4.1.tar.xz
109M    downloads/qtwebengine-opensource-src-5.4.1.tar.xz
3.3M    downloads/qtwebkit-examples-opensource-src-5.4.1.tar.xz
32M     downloads/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.4.1.tar.xz
76K     downloads/qtwebsockets-opensource-src-5.4.1.tar.xz
28K     downloads/qtx11extras-opensource-src-5.4.1.tar.xz
1.3M    downloads/qtxmlpatterns-opensource-src-5.4.1.tar.xz

OE @ ~/build/oe-core $ du -hs downloads/git2/code.qt.io*git/
5.7M    downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt-labs.qt5-everywhere-demo.git/
143M    downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qt3d.git/
468M    downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qtbase.git/
13M     downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qtconnectivity.git/
159M    downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qtdeclarative.git/
3.8M    downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qtenginio.git/
31M     downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qtgraphicaleffects.git/
6.2M    downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qtimageformats.git/
33M     downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qtlocation.git/
28M     downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qtmultimedia.git/
29M     downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qtquick1.git/
23M     downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qtquickcontrols.git/
11M     downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qtscript.git/
9.2M    downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qtsensors.git/
5.1M    downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qtserialport.git/
3.6M    downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qtsvg.git/
11M     downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qtsystems.git/
29M     downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qttools.git/
9.5M    downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qttranslations.git/
6.9M    downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qtwayland.git/
1.4M    downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qtwebchannel.git/
8.4M    downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qtwebengine.git/
4.3M    downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qtwebkit-examples.git/
124M    downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qtwebkit.git/
2.3M    downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qtwebsockets.git/
7.5M    downloads/git2/code.qt.io.qt.qtxmlpatterns.git/

older premirror tarballs (I'm not generating them in current local build)
are also relatively small as expected based on unpacked repo size

OE @ ~/build/oe-core $ du -hs downloads/git2_*gitorious*qt*gz
2.6M    downloads/git2_gitorious.org.qt.qtwayland.git.tar.gz
37M     downloads/git2_qt.gitorious.org.qt.qt3d.git.tar.gz
158M    downloads/git2_qt.gitorious.org.qt.qtbase.git.tar.gz
2.3M    downloads/git2_qt.gitorious.org.qt.qtconnectivity.git.tar.gz
58M     downloads/git2_qt.gitorious.org.qt.qtdeclarative.git.tar.gz
30M     downloads/git2_qt.gitorious.org.qt.qtgraphicaleffects.git.tar.gz
3.3M    downloads/git2_qt.gitorious.org.qt.qtimageformats.git.tar.gz
12M     downloads/git2_qt.gitorious.org.qt.qtlocation.git.tar.gz
13M     downloads/git2_qt.gitorious.org.qt.qtmultimedia.git.tar.gz
27M     downloads/git2_qt.gitorious.org.qt.qtquick1.git.tar.gz
5.4M    downloads/git2_qt.gitorious.org.qt.qtquickcontrols.git.tar.gz
9.5M    downloads/git2_qt.gitorious.org.qt.qtscript.git.tar.gz
4.4M    downloads/git2_qt.gitorious.org.qt.qtsensors.git.tar.gz
1.7M    downloads/git2_qt.gitorious.org.qt.qtserialport.git.tar.gz
2.8M    downloads/git2_qt.gitorious.org.qt.qtsvg.git.tar.gz
3.0M    downloads/git2_qt.gitorious.org.qt.qtsystems.git.tar.gz
18M     downloads/git2_qt.gitorious.org.qt.qttools.git.tar.gz
3.3M    downloads/git2_qt.gitorious.org.qt.qtwayland.git.tar.gz
3.8M    downloads/git2_qt.gitorious.org.qt.qtwebkit-examples.git.tar.gz
117M    downloads/git2_qt.gitorious.org.qt.qtwebkit.git.tar.gz
84K     downloads/git2_qt.gitorious.org.qt.qtx11extras.git.tar.gz
6.1M    downloads/git2_qt.gitorious.org.qt.qtxmlpatterns.git.tar.gz

> 
> > > If we all use the same version from the same recipes then we can test it
> > > better and it will be much easier to maintain.
> > 
> > I think it's time to mention: Thanks for maintaining qt5 and other
> > layers - you do an excellent job!
> 
> Seconded!!

Thanks all!

WIP patches coming soon

-- 
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com