Author: anonym Date: To: The Tails public development discussion list Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] [review'n'merge:1.4.1] eatmydata is not being used
in the build chroot (#9419)
On 05/20/2015 08:51 AM, intrigeri wrote: > Hi,
>
> it was noticed that eatmydata is actually *not* being used for most of
> the Tails build process. Let's fix that.
I "benchmarked" this while doing some other stuff. The speedup isn't
very big. :)
> The needed changes live in two different repositories:
>
> * live-build: tails/debian-old-2.0+faketime
Merged into tails/debian-old-2!
> * main Tails Git repo: bugfix/9419-eatmydata-in-build-chroot
Merged!
> See #9419#note-3 regarding how to get and test the updated live-build.
> Once successfully reviewed and tested, I'm happy to take care of the
> merge and re-upload it for both i386 and amd64 into our builder-wheezy
> APT suite, if the reviewer doesn't feel at ease doing that.
The packages are now uploaded to both suites.
> And then, I'll update the build doc and send a heads up to
> code contributors.
Please go ahead!
> Also note that the proposed live-build changes also include a tiny,
> unrelated one that will also make things a bit easier when working on
> reproducible builds (#5630). This is meant to minimize the number of
> times we have to go through this special merge process.
