[Buildroot] [PATCH 6/8] package/tvheadend: Enable bundled build

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Tue Oct 14 08:26:05 UTC 2014


Thomas, Bernd, All,

On 2014-10-12 21:35 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> Dear Bernd Kuhls,
> 
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 20:20:46 +0200, Bernd Kuhls wrote:
> 
> > the alternative is to remove host-python as a dependency and built  
> > /usr/bin/tvheadend without its bundled webinterface, this will reduce build 
> > time.
> > 
> > /usr/share/tvheadend, this is where the unbundled webinterface files are 
> > stored, takes ~8 MB on the target, the bundled binary is ~3 MB bigger due to 
> > the use of the Python gzip module when bundling the web files.
> > 
> > I leave this up for discussion ;)
> 
> Size-wise and simplicity-wise, the bundled option seems like the right
> choice to me. If it doesn't suit someone in the future, it will always
> be time to make it optional if needed.

Agreed.

However, whether we use bundled or unbundled, the webinterface files are
to be present, so the size would be a bit bigger when unbundled, since
files would not be conmpressed (except if the filesystem is itself a
compressed filesystem).

So, bundled seems like the correct option for now.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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