From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtprelay-h21.telenor.se ([195.54.99.196]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RE9OC-0001oO-LU for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:43:13 +0200 Received: from iph3.telenor.se (iph3.telenor.se [195.54.127.134]) by smtprelay-h21.telenor.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DEDEE9D45 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:37:28 +0200 (CEST) X-SENDER-IP: [83.227.57.13] X-LISTENER: [smtp.bredband.net] X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AuEzAGwylk5T4zkNPGdsb2JhbAAMN4k8kCiMZIISAQEBATeCBQEBAQEDOEARCxgJFAIPCQMCAQIBMRQTCAEBwFqHWASTdZFW X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.69,337,1315173600"; d="scan'208";a="130093811" Received: from c-0d39e353.011-39-73746f12.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO [10.175.196.244]) ([83.227.57.13]) by iph3.telenor.se with ESMTP; 13 Oct 2011 02:37:11 +0200 Message-ID: <4E9632B7.2010901@telia.com> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:37:11 +0200 From: Ulf Samuelsson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110922 Thunderbird/3.1.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Creating Rootfs images without packages X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:43:13 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -- Best Regards Ulf Samuelsson