Bug 9613 - Extensible SDK: Improve perceived performance of preparation during install
Summary: Extensible SDK: Improve perceived performance of preparation during install
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: OE-Core
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: core (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Medium+ enhancement
Target Milestone: 2.2 M2
Assignee: Paul Eggleton
QA Contact: Francisco Pedraza
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Depends on: 9367
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Reported: 2016-05-10 03:43 UTC by Paul Eggleton
Modified: 2016-07-13 23:05 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Paul Eggleton 2016-05-10 03:43:58 UTC 
The extensible SDK can take a long time to install, especially when it is based on a larger image or is installing pkgdata for world from sstate (SDK_EXT_TYPE = "minimal" and SDK_INCLUDE_PKGDATA = "1"). We should look to reduce the time it takes to execute, and bug 9367 is part of that, but I'd also like to look at whether we could show percentage complete during this stage and possibly optimise the process if possible.

This will mean digging down into the details of how bitbake runs setscene tasks and potentially implementing a new "light" UI that only displays percentage complete and logs everything else to a file (unless there's an error).
Comment 1 Paul Eggleton 2016-07-13 23:05:04 UTC 
We now show progress during the preparation step, and we've cut out the double execution of bitbake. I'm therefore going to call this one done for now, if we need to make additional improvements they can be covered under additional bugs.