On 18/08/2016 03:19, Craig McQueen wrote: > I wrote: >> I've just had to upgrade from Mono 4.2.x to Mono 4.4.x, to get a fix for SMTP >> SSL/TLS. >> >> I'm using the mono-libs-4.5 package. I see that the size of it has increased >> quite a lot (several MB) due to the upgrade. It looks as though it's now >> putting a bunch of files in /usr/lib/mono/4.5-api in addition to the old >> /usr/lib/mono/4.5. >> >> I can see this mentioned in the Mono 4.4.0 release notes: >> http://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/releases/4.4.0/ >> >> But the rationale is not entirely clear to me. Is it possible to cut down the >> Yocto image size by removing one of /usr/lib/mono/4.5-api and >> /usr/lib/mono/4.5, or some other refactoring? > It looks as though, in my image for the device, I only need /usr/lib/mono/4.5. > > In my custom layer, I've made a mono_4.4.%.bbappend file which contains: > > # Split /usr/lib/mono/4.5-api off into a separate package. > PACKAGES += "${PN}-libs-4.5-api" > > FILES_${PN}-libs-4.5-api = "${libdir}/mono/4.5-api/*" > FILES_${PN}-libs-4.5 = "${libdir}/mono/4.5/*" > > My image includes the package mono-libs-4.5 (as it did before when I was > using Mono 4.2.x). Now the image size is back to near what it was for Mono > 4.2.x, and everything on the target device seems to be running fine. >
Thanks Craig. I'll take a look at adding this in Cheers, Alex -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
