[Toaster] Toaster] [RFC] Image customisation with Toaster

[Paul Eggleton]

On Wednesday 06 May 2015 09:11:57 Barros Pena, Belen wrote:
> On 05/05/2015 20:07, "Lerner, Dave" <dave.lerner at windriver.com> wrote:
> >Belen,
> >
> >> > Is it impractical to prebuild, then preload the database with package
> >> >dependencies for a few standard oe images and downloadable bsps?
> >> When would that 'prebuilding' happen? Can it be stopped? My worry is
> >> about people just trying Toaster locally, in machines that are not very
> >> powerful and can take ages to build things. If we need to do this
> >> 'prebuilding' when you set up Toaster, and you cannot stop it once it's
> >> started, that can cause trouble.
> >
> >By prebuilts, I meant that it would be done before release on a few major
> >bitbake image targets for some selection of bsps during the yocto release
> >build process, that is, by the yocto team.  This dependency list would be
> >part of the yocto distribution that helps populate toaster tables.
> 
> I see. This sounds like a question for Paul Eggleton. We'll see what he
> thinks.

It's certainly possible. The question would be whether or not this would be 
accurate and applicable enough to users who are changing their configuration 
before their first build. On the other hand you could argue that some results 
might be better than none.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre