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From: "Fredrik Gustafsson" <fredrik.gustafsson@axis.com>
To: <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Cc: <tools-cfpbuild-internal@axis.com>
Subject: Add package managers as a plugin
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 10:46:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200701084634.11428-1-fredrigu@axis.com> (raw)

OE-core 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. 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 OE-core since it increases
the test matrix. Therefore I will refactor the package management code to
allow a layer to add a new package manager without editing the meta layer.

This refactor will be divided into multiple patch series to be easier to review,
this first one with a single patch.

             reply	other threads:[~2020-07-01  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-01  8:46 Fredrik Gustafsson [this message]
2020-07-01  8:46 ` [PATCH v3] nopackages.bbclass: Get tasks from variable Fredrik Gustafsson
2020-07-01  9:48   ` [OE-core] " Paul Barker
2020-07-01  9:54     ` Richard Purdie
     [not found]     ` <161D98456D41D2FE.27211@lists.openembedded.org>
2020-07-01 10:11       ` Richard Purdie
     [not found]       ` <161D992D91B5C0EE.29179@lists.openembedded.org>
2020-07-01 10:12         ` Richard Purdie
2020-07-01 10:22           ` Paul Barker
2020-07-01 10:51             ` Fredrik Gustafsson
2020-07-09 10:41   ` Fredrik Gustafsson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-07-02 19:29 Add package managers as a plugin Fredrik Gustafsson
2020-06-25 10:21 Fredrik Gustafsson
2020-06-25 10:13 Fredrik Gustafsson
2020-06-23 11:13 Fredrik Gustafsson

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