On Fri, 2023-06-02 at 09:08 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 10:37 PM Yu, Mingli <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > From: Mingli Yu <[email protected]>
> > 
> > Currently all files as below packaged into one package such as
> > qemu-7.2.0-*.rpm. After the qemu package installed on the target,
> > it will take up about 464M which includes not only the one matches
> > the arch of the target but aslo all available built qemu targets
> > which set by QEMU_TARGETS.
> > 
> >  # ls tmp-glibc/work/core2-64-wrs-linux/qemu/7.2.0-r0/image/usr/bin/
> >  qemu-aarch64  qemu-img          qemu-mips64el   qemu-ppc64
> >  qemu-sh4    qemu-system-loongarch64  qemu-system-ppc      
> > qemu-system-x86_64
> >  qemu-arm      qemu-io           qemu-mipsel     qemu-ppc64le
> >  qemu-storage-daemon  qemu-system-mips         qemu-system-ppc64
> >  qemu-x86_64 qemu-edid     qemu-loongarch64  qemu-mips.real
> >  qemu-pr-helper  qemu-system-aarch64  qemu-system-mips64
> >  qemu-system-riscv32 qemu-ga       qemu-mips         qemu-nbd
> >  qemu-riscv32    qemu-system-arm      qemu-system-mips64el
> >  qemu-system-riscv64 qemu-i386     qemu-mips64       qemu-ppc
> >  qemu-riscv64    qemu-system-i386     qemu-system-mipsel qemu-system-sh4
> > 
> > Split the qemu package into qemu-7.2.0-*.rpm, 
> > qemu-system-aarch64-7.2.0*.rpm,
> > qemu-system-x86_64-7.2.0*.rpm and etc. And let user can only choose the
> > corresponding qemu arch package they want to install should ease the 
> > concerns
> > who cares much about the size in embedded device as it decreases the qemu 
> > rpm
> > (qemu-7.2.0*.rpm) size from about 65M to about 19M and the size of the
> > extracted qemu RPM decreased from about 464M to about 248M.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mingli Yu <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc | 5 +++++
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc 
> > b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc
> > index a87dee5c99..c6fd39aab6 100644
> > --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc
> > +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/qemu/qemu.inc
> > @@ -230,6 +230,11 @@ INSANE_SKIP:${PN} = "arch"
> > 
> >  FILES:${PN} += "${datadir}/icons"
> > 
> > +python populate_packages:prepend() {
> > +    archdir = d.expand('${bindir}/')
> > +    do_split_packages(d, archdir, r'^qemu-system-(.*)$', 
> > '${PN}-system-%s', 'QEMU full system emulation binaries(%s)' , prepend=True)
> > +}
> 
> I don't see a v3 changelog, but that does look like the unnecessary
> default runtime dependency is gone, but what would be the method of
> installing the packages if I have an image where I'd like the old
> non-split functionality ?
> 
> Either a meta packages (qemu-system-all ?) or a way to override the
> functionality (a variable around the do_split call ?) are options to
> enable that sort of thing. As I mentioned before, there's a different
> expected split of the packages in some scenarios, and it would be
> ideal to not break those use cases.

This is quite a common need for things which call do_split_packages,
I'm starting to wonder if it should support some kind of "common"
package as a parameter which it would add dependencies to?

Cheers,

Richard
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