Re: Reducing size of the weekly build

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 19:58 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 21 May 2014 17:22, Flanagan, Elizabeth <elizabeth.flanagan@intel.com> wrote:
> > One thing I'm thinking of and I want some feedback here is setting the
> > package type on the main builds to just ipk and running a special
> > deb/rpm test being to ensure those package types are functional. This
> > should give us a bit of a speed increase for build times, without
> > introducing too much risk. Thoughts?
> 
> The reduced coverage is something to consider, but if the other builds
> were world and also built images then the reduction shouldn't be too
> bad.  I wonder what the speed difference between ipk and ipkg+rpm is:
> this is probably worth measuring.

We do need to be careful about coverage here. We have seen bugs where
things failed in deb or rpm but not ipk and maybe only on some
architectures.

I'm fine with being more selective about what we publish however in the
builds it may be worth leaving this enabled.

Cheers,

Richard