changelog.sh: do not check every recipe for CVEs#159
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"bitbake -s" actually does not take any arguments, and prints the versions of all recipes available. This is a much larger list than the recipes actually used for building the image. Since the cve report contains only CVEs for recipes used in the image, this causes a lot of checks for CVEs for which the answer will always be empty. So instead iterate over $packages which only contains the recipe names of recipes included in the image. This significantly speeds up the CVE collection. In a non-scientific test this sped up collecting the package versions and CVEs of one release from ~16 minutes to ~1 minute, so it should reduce generating a changelog with CVEs by about half an hour. Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@bisdn.de>
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Now the main time sink is pulling the cve database, which can take more than 30 minutes, depending on the mood of the nist cve database server. |
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"bitbake -s" actually does not take any arguments, and prints the versions of all recipes available. This is a much larger list than the recipes actually used for building the image.
Since the cve report contains only CVEs for recipes used in the image, this causes a lot of checks for CVEs for which the answer will always be empty.
So instead iterate over $packages which only contains the recipe names of recipes included in the image. This significantly speeds up the CVE collection.
In a non-scientific test this sped up collecting the package versions and CVEs of one release from ~16 minutes to ~1 minute, so it should reduce generating a changelog with CVEs by about half an hour.