Hi Jörg,
- I've changed to positive logic
- I would rather not change to to_boolean. I'm just moving a line, and
introducing to_boolean would make it inconsistent with all the other lines
where this variable is used. Also BUILD_IMAGES_FROM_FEEDS is undocumented
(it is barely used upstream as far as I understand from
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto/topic/install_externally_built_ipk/112649954
), so acceptable values are not 100% clear to me (other lines using this
variable treat "False" as a positive value since they call "if
d.getVar('BUILD_IMAGES_FROM_FEEDS'):", while to_boolean would do the
opposite).
- I've swapped the evaluation order



On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 6:31 PM Jörg Sommer <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Etienne Cordonnier via lists.openembedded.org schrieb am Mi 29. Jul,
> 17:29 (+0200):
> > From: Etienne Cordonnier <[email protected]>
> >
> > Computing checksums in the opkg Packages index requires reading every
> > .ipk file in full.  For a large image with 7000+ packages (including
> > multi-gigabyte debug packages), this adds 150-300s to every do_rootfs
> run.
> >
> > Checksums in the Packages index are only meaningful for signed feeds
> > (PACKAGE_FEED_SIGN=1): the GPG signature covers the Packages index
> > which contains the SHA256Sum of each .ipk, forming a chain of trust
> > that prevents tampered packages being swapped on a remote feed.
> >
> > For unsigned local file:// feeds the packages are installed directly
> > from the build host filesystem where there is no tampering risk.  Skip
> > all checksum generation in that case by passing no --checksum flags to
> > opkg-make-index (the tool's default behaviour when given no flags).
> > Pass --force-checksum to opkg so it does not error on the absent
> > checksum fields.
> >
> > On a test image with 7000+ packages (including a 2.3 GB debug
> > package): write_index time reduced from ~180s to ~22s (8x speedup)
> > when opkg-make-index is configured to produce no checksums by default.
> >
> > See
> https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=e462f47489f35902b6972f9837d9adfa542fc796
> > ("Enable sha256 checksums in opkg indexer", 2019) for the original
> rationale.
> >
> > AI-Generated: Claude Sonnet 4.6
> > Signed-off-by: Etienne Cordonnier <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  meta/lib/oe/package_manager/ipk/__init__.py | 14 +++++++++-----
> >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/meta/lib/oe/package_manager/ipk/__init__.py
> b/meta/lib/oe/package_manager/ipk/__init__.py
> > index 344e0852177..6c0b896a086 100644
> > --- a/meta/lib/oe/package_manager/ipk/__init__.py
> > +++ b/meta/lib/oe/package_manager/ipk/__init__.py
> > @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ from oe.package_manager import *
> >  from oe.package_manager.common_deb_ipk import OpkgDpkgPM
> >
> >  class OpkgIndexer(Indexer):
> > -    def write_index(self):
> > +    def write_index(self, skip_checksums=False):
>
> Suggestion: I would use the positive case (like with_checksums or
> use_checksums or build_checksums), because reasoning about/reading code
> with
> the inverse is more difficult.
>
> >          arch_vars = ["ALL_MULTILIB_PACKAGE_ARCHS",
> >                       "SDK_PACKAGE_ARCHS",
> >                       ]
> > @@ -44,8 +44,9 @@ class OpkgIndexer(Indexer):
> >                  if not os.path.exists(pkgs_file):
> >                      open(pkgs_file, "w").close()
> >
> > -                index_cmds.add('%s --checksum md5 --checksum sha256 -r
> %s -p %s -m %s %s' %
> > -                                  (opkg_index_cmd, pkgs_file,
> pkgs_file, pkgs_dir, opkg_index_cmd_extra_params))
> > +                checksum_args = '' if skip_checksums else '--checksum
> md5 --checksum sha256 '
> > +                index_cmds.add('%s %s-r %s -p %s -m %s %s' %
> > +                                  (opkg_index_cmd, checksum_args,
> pkgs_file, pkgs_file, pkgs_dir, opkg_index_cmd_extra_params))
> >
> >                  index_sign_files.add(pkgs_file)
> >
> > @@ -103,8 +104,12 @@ class OpkgPM(OpkgDpkgPM):
> >          self.deploy_dir = oe.path.join(self.d.getVar('WORKDIR'),
> ipk_repo_workdir)
> >          self.deploy_lock_file = os.path.join(self.deploy_dir,
> "deploy.lock")
> >          self.opkg_cmd = bb.utils.which(os.getenv('PATH'), "opkg")
> > +        self.from_feeds = (self.d.getVar('BUILD_IMAGES_FROM_FEEDS') or
> "") == "1"
>
> Or: bb.utils.to_boolean(...)
>
> > +        self._skip_checksums = self.d.getVar('PACKAGE_FEED_SIGN') !=
> '1' and not self.from_feeds
>
> I would swap them because evaluation of the second one is cheaper.
>
> >          self.opkg_args = ['--volatile-cache', '-f', config_file, '-t',
> self.d.expand('${T}/ipktemp/'), '-o', target_rootfs]
> >          self.opkg_args.extend(shlex.split(self.d.getVar("OPKG_ARGS")))
> > +        if self._skip_checksums:
> > +            self.opkg_args.append('--force-checksum')
> >
> >          if prepare_index:
> >              create_packages_dir(self.d, self.deploy_dir,
> d.getVar("DEPLOY_DIR_IPK"), "package_write_ipk", filterbydependencies)
> > @@ -116,7 +121,6 @@ class OpkgPM(OpkgDpkgPM):
> >          if not os.path.exists(self.d.expand('${T}/saved')):
> >              bb.utils.mkdirhier(self.d.expand('${T}/saved'))
> >
> > -        self.from_feeds = (self.d.getVar('BUILD_IMAGES_FROM_FEEDS') or
> "") == "1"
> >          if self.from_feeds:
> >              self._create_custom_config()
> >          else:
> > @@ -346,7 +350,7 @@ class OpkgPM(OpkgDpkgPM):
> >      def write_index(self):
> >          self.deploy_dir_lock()
> >
> > -        result = self.indexer.write_index()
> > +        result =
> self.indexer.write_index(skip_checksums=self._skip_checksums)
> >
> >          self.deploy_dir_unlock()
>
>
> Jörg
>
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