On Fri, 2018-09-07 at 14:02 -0500, Andrew Geissler wrote: > Hi, > > We've been running into some flash space issues over in the openbmc > project. I noticed the python.bb file (python_2.7.14.bb for us) is > installing some test folders/files in our rootfs image. > > # find /usr/lib/python2.7/ -name "test" -print > /usr/lib/python2.7/ctypes/test > /usr/lib/python2.7/email/test > > I'm looking to see if there's any functional reason these tests are > included in the image. > > In our compressed filesystem we're talking about ~150KB of space but > right now that's a pretty big deal for us. Would the community be > interested in a patch to not install (or make it an option like is > done with INCLUDE_PYCS) these test files? Or is this something we > should just handle in a .bbappend file for our distro? > > Here's a complete list of test directories in the python package. > ./Python-2.7.14/Lib/bsddb/test > ./Python-2.7.14/Lib/sqlite3/test > ./Python-2.7.14/Lib/ctypes/test > ./Python-2.7.14/Lib/unittest/test > ./Python-2.7.14/Lib/lib-tk/test > ./Python-2.7.14/Lib/email/test
These definitely sound like they should be put into a different package which is related to testing and not installed otherwise. So yes, in principle these are exactly the kinds of fixes which should be going into core! Cheers, Richard -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
