Re: [Tails-dev] [review'n'merge:1.4.1] eatmydata is not bein…

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Betreff: 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.


\o/

Cheers!