On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 5:49 AM Niko Mauno <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 20.10.2023 19.34, Khem Raj wrote:
>  > it seems you are quite sensitive to size, I wonder if opkg backend is
>  > better suited for your usecase than rpm.
>
> Hi Khem, thanks for the idea. We used opkg a few years ago, however
> certain technical reasons were in favor of rpm which we have used since.
> Perhaps we have a bit different view, smaller image means for us
> spending less time building, booting and flashing firmware (i.e. not
> just disk space consumption alone).

Using xz certainly is slower than using zstd so it certainly will regress on
your first consideration about build time. booting is perhaps not
impacted unless
compressed file system is used and you are changing the compression
type for that.
flashing again is subjective, if you carry package metadata into
images it might matter
otherwise I would think your images with opkg or rpm should be about
the same size if you
include packager into your image then opkg might be slightly smaller.

>
> -Niko
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