Package: live-build
Version: 1:20190311
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
I create live systems with huge includes (read-only virtual machines)
and noticed that the chroot_includes step takes a very long time.
Looking at the source code I noticed that chroot_includes uses several
tar calls for this step. I replaced this code block with a simple rsync
call which is much more efficient in both space and time (see attached
patch).
Best regards
Ronny
>From 1f865461d87f6bbdb85e5369ee35f7568f0435db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ronny Standtke <ronny.stand...@gmx.net>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 18:34:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] replaced tar with rsync as it is much more efficient in both
space and time
---
scripts/build/chroot_includes | 8 +-------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/build/chroot_includes b/scripts/build/chroot_includes
index 6ab4e288d..98f521f61 100755
--- a/scripts/build/chroot_includes
+++ b/scripts/build/chroot_includes
@@ -41,13 +41,7 @@ Create_lockfile .lock
if Find_files config/includes.chroot/
then
# Copying includes
- cd config/includes.chroot
- Echo_message "Creating a tarball with files from includes.chroot..."
- tar cf "${OLDPWD}"/chroot/includes.chroot.tar .
- cd "${OLDPWD}"
- Echo_message "Extracting the tarball in the chroot..."
- Chroot chroot "tar -xvf includes.chroot.tar --no-same-owner --keep-directory-symlink --overwrite"
- rm chroot/includes.chroot.tar
+ rsync -Klrv --chown=0:0 config/includes.chroot/ chroot/
# Creating stage file
Create_stagefile .build/includes.chroot
--
2.11.0
