Bug 11791

Summary:	Reduce the amount and storage space required of image artefacts published from builds
Product:	[Infrastructure] AutoBuilder	Reporter:	Joshua Lock <joshuagloe>
Component:	autobuilder	Assignee:	Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Medium+	CC:	infras.ab.watcher, Infras.watcher, pidge, randy.macleod, richard.purdie
Version:	2.4
Target Milestone:	6.2
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Joshua Lock 2017-07-14 13:22:46 UTC

We currently publish a lot of large images for each build and it would be beneficial for our long term storage management and release process if PublishArtifacts published fewer image artefacts.

* ext4 images are an intermediate of the live images, but it doesn't make sense to publish those.
* we support compression for each image by appending a compression format to the image type in IMAGE_FSTYPES, i.e. IMAGE_FSTYPES += "wic.bz2"

Comment 1 Joshua Lock 2017-07-27 12:44:29 UTC

Images QA test are:
    - beaglebone/
         - core-image-sato-sdk-beaglebone.*
         - u-boot*
         - zImage*
    - edgerouter/
         - core-image-sato-sdk-edgerouter.*
         - miodules*
         - vmlinux*
    - mpc8315e-rdb/
         -   core-image-minimal-mpc8315e-rdb.*
    -  genericx86-64-lsb/
         -  core-image-lsb-sdk-genericx86-64.*
    -  genericx86-64/
         -  core-image-sato-sdk-genericx86-64.*
         -  core-image-sato-sdk-ptest-genericx86-64.hddimg
         -  core-image-sato-sdk-ptest-genericx86-64.wic
    -  genericx86-lsb/
         -  core-image-lsb-sdk-genericx86.*
    -  genericx86-64/
         -  core-image-sato-sdk-genericx86.*
     - qemu/
           - qemux86/
               -  bzImage-qemux86.bin
               -  core-image-sato-sdk-qemux86.*
           - qemux86-64/
               -  bzImage-qemux86-64.bin
               -  core-image-sato-sdk-qemux86-64.*
           - qemuarm/ && qemuarm64/ && qemumips/ && qemumips64/ && qemuppc/
               - *.bin
               -  core-image-sato-sdk*

Comment 2 Joshua Lock 2017-09-27 13:55:06 UTC

Some preliminary changes were made but there's certainly more we can do.

Comment 3 Robin Jordan 2018-02-26 20:29:43 UTC

Is this part of the autobuilder rework?  If not, will it be ready for YP 2.5 M3?

Comment 4 Randy MacLeod 2023-10-24 14:24:44 UTC

Bulk move from 4.99 or 0.00 to 5.99