On Thu, 2017-03-16 at 10:48 +0000, Jack Mitchell wrote: > An issue with not having separate recipes is going to cause problems > with OTA package updates. I currently have a node package that I > maintain for a client and it's so big (excess of 30,000 files with all > deps) that we have to have a special update procedure of uninstalling > the package, re-installing the new version and then performing a system > update. A package update with 30,000 files on a quad core fast arm64 > chip takes upwards of 40 minutes. It would be fantastic, if only the > core node application and changed dependencies could be updated.
If only some files changed, then going from a package-based update mechanism (where a package gets reinstalled when any file gets changed) to a file-based one (like swupd or OSTree) should also address the problem, because then the update detects exactly the modified files and only needs to replace those. Just a thought, in case that auto-packaging turns out to be too hard. -- Best Regards, Patrick Ohly The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak on behalf of Intel on this matter. -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
