Bug 770 - Add mechanism to enable UI's to request extra data be stored in the cache
Summary: Add mechanism to enable UI's to request extra data be stored in the cache
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: BitBake
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: bitbake (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Low enhancement
Target Milestone: 1.1
Assignee: Joshua Lock - Disabled
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Reported: 2011-02-24 08:05 UTC by Joshua Lock - Disabled
Modified: 2011-06-12 16:09 UTC (History)
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Description Joshua Lock - Disabled 2011-02-24 08:05:25 UTC 
Whilst developing the prototype image creation GUI I added some extra entries to the cache which increase it's size http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=a13304e1c6500db95823961a5a34849db46037e3

These entries, whilst essential for the image creation GUI, are useless overhead for all other (current) interfaces.

A good feature for the Yocto 1.1 development cycle would be to allow UI's to request additional data be stored in the cache, and disable these entries by default.
Comment 1 Joshua Lock - Disabled 2011-02-24 09:08:51 UTC 
Some ideas from IRC discussion:

16:36 < RP__> kergoth`, incandescant: One idea I'm toying with is having the 
              cache be UI specific which would then handle a certain class of 
              problems
16:44 < kergoth`> I thought about that too, or index the cache by the structure 
                  of the cached data in some way
Comment 2 Joshua Lock - Disabled 2011-06-12 16:08:15 UTC 
Liping created a series of patches for this work which have been merged into the Poky and BitBake repositories.
The key commit in the upstream repository is: 
http://git.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/bitbake/commit/?id=077657e50ad032c0fa876bf54e9802af2686e0fb
Comment 3 Joshua Lock - Disabled 2011-06-12 16:09:19 UTC 
This works and is in use by the hob 'image creator' BitBake UI.