On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 10:43:28 +0100 Alexander Kanavin wrote:
>> The tzdata.bb by default pulls in all possible timezone data packages which
>> increases size of the final root filesystem considerably.
>> The customer would like to have extra timezones configurable so that only
>> tzdata-core is chosen by default and rest of the zones are optional.
>> This change would make the fs size a lot smaller.
>
>Thank you for the contribution. To be considered for inclusion in
>oe-core, there need to be two improvements:
>
>- please quantify wording like "increases size considerably" and
>"makes sizes a lot smaller". What kind of numbers are those and under
>what conditions?
When TZ_PACKAGES only retains one tzdata-core, the image size generated by 
tzdata is 320KB. 
When TZ_PACKAGES contains all tzdata packets, the image size of tzdata is 7.4MB.
The difference in mirror size between the two is 7MB.
>- the changes need to be integrated directly into tzdata recipe, and
>default behavior needs to remain as it is now.
Thanks,
Lizhi
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