On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 11:14, Fredrik Gustafsson <fredrik.gustafs...@axis.com> wrote: > Poky today has three different package managers, the well-known formats deb > and rpm is supported as well as ipkg that is good for embedded devices. > > When building and having a good cache hit, a significant amount of time is > spent in the phase of generating a rootfs, which is really about the > performance of the package manager. ipkg is way slower than deb or rpm. To > save build time and also get a package manager that is suitanle for use on > targets where flash memory is a concern, support for apk is suggested. > > However, it might or might not be what's wanted for Poky since it increases > the test matrix. Therefore this patch series refactors the package > management code so that it's possible to add more package managers in other > own layer. I will send another patch serie that will add apk.
As to the code review I mostly second what Paul said. However, obviously you actually have strong feelings on this as the series represents a fair amount of work. What are the compelling reasons to use apk? Five seconds on core-image-minimal doesn't really sell it to me, I don't think anyone ever claimed that opkg has been performance optimised, dpkg isn't really used that much: maybe we should re-evaluate what package managers are supported if apk has feature parity but is significantly faster or has other advantages. Ross
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