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Embedded Linux Development Using Yocto Project Cookbook - Second Edition
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Embedded Linux Development Using Yocto Project Cookbook - Second Edition

by Alex González
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
12h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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To maintain build history, it's important to optimize it and prevent it from growing over time. Periodic backups of build history and clean-ups of older data are important to keep the build history repository at a manageable size.

Once the buildhistory directory has been backed up, the following process will trim it and keep only the most recent history:

  1. Copy your repository to a temporary RAM filesystem (tmpfs) to speed things up. Check the output of the df -h command to see which directories are tmpfs filesystems and how much space they have available, and use one. For example, in Ubuntu 16.04, the /run/ directory is available.
  1. Copy build history to the /run directory as follows:
$ sudo mkdir /run/workspace
$ sudo chown ...
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