[yocto] Can anything be done about do_rootfs speed?

[Paul D. DeRocco]

> From: Martin Jansa
> 
> Are you sure that you're not building some unnecessary IMAGE_FSTYPES?

No, I'm not sure.

> Last time someone asked my why it takes so long I've added some debug
> output to do_rootfs and found out that only half of the time was opkg
> installing packages and the rest was various IMAGE_FSTYPES.
> 
> e.g. tar.bz2 takes very long without pbzip2 or lbzip2

Is there a standard way to use those in a build? Do I replace bzip2 with a
link to one of those? Or does Yocto build its own bzip2?

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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