Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 4/4] package_rpm.bbclass: Support compression override

2023-10-24 Thread Khem Raj
On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 5:49 AM Niko Mauno 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

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 4/4] package_rpm.bbclass: Support compression override

2023-10-24 Thread Niko Mauno via lists.openembedded.org
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.

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 4/4] package_rpm.bbclass: Support compression override

2023-10-21 Thread Niko Mauno via lists.openembedded.org
On 10/20/23 16:00, Richard Purdie wrote: As far as I could tell when we looked at this, the rpm world was moving over to zstd so adding in conditional xz support for a limited use case probably just creates a maintenance headache going forward as it isn't something we test or plan to test? I

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 4/4] package_rpm.bbclass: Support compression override

2023-10-20 Thread Khem Raj
On 10/20/23 6:42 AM, Niko Mauno via lists.openembedded.org wrote: On 20.10.2023 16.00, Richard Purdie wrote: Is it common for people to need to manipulate rpms on target without rpm being present using busybox? Do you know if busybox plans to add zstd support? As far as I could tell when we

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 4/4] package_rpm.bbclass: Support compression override

2023-10-20 Thread Niko Mauno via lists.openembedded.org
On 20.10.2023 16.00, Richard Purdie wrote: Is it common for people to need to manipulate rpms on target without rpm being present using busybox? Do you know if busybox plans to add zstd support? As far as I could tell when we looked at this, the rpm world was moving over to zstd so adding in

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 4/4] package_rpm.bbclass: Support compression override

2023-10-20 Thread Richard Purdie
On Fri, 2023-10-20 at 12:44 +, Niko Mauno via lists.openembedded.org wrote: > From: Niko Mauno > > Commit 4a4d5f78a6962dda5f63e9891825c80a8a87bf66 ("package_rpm: use zstd > instead of xz") changed the rpm package compressor from 'xz' to 'zstd' > which results in decompression failure with

[OE-core] [PATCH 4/4] package_rpm.bbclass: Support compression override

2023-10-20 Thread Niko Mauno via lists.openembedded.org
From: Niko Mauno Commit 4a4d5f78a6962dda5f63e9891825c80a8a87bf66 ("package_rpm: use zstd instead of xz") changed the rpm package compressor from 'xz' to 'zstd' which results in decompression failure with BusyBox-provided 'rpm2cpio' applet and 'rpm' applet when given the '-i' (Install package)