Improved build times for snappy images

[Fabio Colella]

I agree with you, things take a lot of time even for trivial changes like
making a file executable or similar things, improving speed at least for
testing would make things a lot better

On 18 May 2016 at 12:37, Reinhard Pointner <reinhard.pointner at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Since I find myself rebuilding over and over trying different things. I
> have noticed a few things that could be improved.
>
>
> 1.
> If I add stage-packages to a part. I have to run `snapcraft clean part`
> first to make the changes stick. Changing the yaml does not automatically
> make snapcraft rebuild the changed parts.
>
> 2.
> mksquashfs takes a lot longer than I'd expect. For a final release I
> wouldn't mind, but building snaps in rapid succession is not fun if it
> takes 2-3 minutes every time (snap folder: 3355 items, totalling 425.4 MB)
> I want to test a small change. Not sure what compression is used, but at
> least for testing I'd prefer something that was super fast / no compression.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Reinhard
>
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