Re: [PATCH 0/3] use local repo for multistrap and drop "dpkg -i"

[Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>]

Hello Henning,

On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 05:24:05PM +0200, Henning Schild wrote:
> This series introduces support for a local repository to be used instead
> of "dpkg -i" after bootstrap.

Before we discuss it in detail: We have an implementation of apt generation
that is also used for binary package caching across bitbake runs in the
lenormf/develop-l20170602-dpkg-cross branch provided to Hans and mentioned on
the list. Which advantages does your implementation bring?

I like your dpkg-scanpackages approach compared to reprepro in the existing
implementation. Analyzing the rest and choosing / combining the optimal
strategy will take some time. To speed up the process, could you perhaps sketch
the changes in the workflow in a few sentences?


Regarding the kernel: Which arch and suite are you building for? We don't
install kernels in QEMU images because they are not necessary.


Regarding the increase of build time, I'd really like to avoid that. Building
all configurations in one run already takes up to 40 min. The problem should be
easily mitigatable by splitting rootfs multistrap and apt-getting the built
packages into separate recipes. At least I'm not aware of any increase in the
existing implementation.