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From: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
To: <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [Draft design][RFC] Running postinst at rootfs generation time
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:11:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E095480.3070001@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1865303E0DED764181A9D882DEF65FB6A167F0C70B@shsmsx502.ccr.corp.intel.com>

On 6/27/11 9:09 PM, Cui, Dexuan wrote:
> Hi all, below is an initial investigation about the task and we'll continue to further look into it.
> 
> In poky we have 2 types of postinst scripts:  one (type-1) can be (and has already been) run at rootfs generation time and the other (type-2) has to be delayed to the first-boot of target device. Type-2 makes target device's first-boot slow and it would be great if we can fix it and convert it to type-1.
> 
> We can instrument a first-boot with minimal/sato first to see which postinstalls take the most time and then prioritise those ones to fix.
> 
> I figurerd out a list of 33 recipes in total(recipes with the same name but with different versions are counted once) we possibly need to fix.
> For the recipes, we need try to find recipe-specific ways(use appropriately modified native utilities to generate caches, files, etc as necessary on the target filesystem).
> 

...

> 1 recipe: prelink: we could propablly fix it, but I'm not sure yet.
> meta/recipes-devtools/prelink/prelink_git.bb

There is nothing to do for the prelinker.  The "image-prelink.bbclass" handles
everything needed to prelink during image creation.  The script is only there
for on-target field upgrades.  So you can remove this from your list.

--Mark

...

> 
> Thanks,
> -- Dexuan
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-28  4:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-28  2:09 [Draft design][RFC] Running postinst at rootfs generation time Cui, Dexuan
2011-06-28  4:11 ` Mark Hatle [this message]
2011-06-28 13:15   ` Richard Purdie
2011-06-28 14:44     ` Mark Hatle
2011-06-28 16:58       ` Hauser, Wolfgang (external)
2011-07-04  0:23         ` Cui, Dexuan
2011-07-05  8:42           ` Tom Parkin
2011-07-05 10:06             ` Hauser, Wolfgang (external)
2011-07-05 10:22               ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-05 10:30                 ` Hauser, Wolfgang (external)
2011-07-05 10:36                   ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-12 17:07               ` Mark Hatle
2011-07-13  7:58                 ` Hauser, Wolfgang (external)
2011-07-13 10:04                 ` Phil Blundell
2011-06-28 13:18 ` Richard Purdie
2011-06-28 20:31 ` Saul Wold

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