Re: [PATCH v3] rootfs_ipk: delete opkg metadata if package management not required and all packages are configured

[Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>]

On 06/01/2011 03:41 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
> If all the postinsts were successfully run in offline mode, and
> package-management hasn't been requested as an IMAGE_FEATURE, the opkg
> metadata is now redundant and can safely be deleted.
>
> Also, the update-rc.d and base-passwd packages can be removed since
> they will serve no further purpose in this situation.
>
> If some packages are still unconfigured at this point then we need to
> keep their metadata around so that either opkg or the awk script can
> configure the packages at boot time.  In theory it would be possible to
> strip out the data for packages that have already been configured, but
> right now we just hold on to the whole status file in that situation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Phil Blundell<philb@gnu.org>
> ---
>   meta/classes/rootfs_ipk.bbclass |   11 +++++++++++
>   1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/classes/rootfs_ipk.bbclass b/meta/classes/rootfs_ipk.bbclass
> index edd84fb..3b4b4da 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/rootfs_ipk.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/rootfs_ipk.bbclass
> @@ -82,6 +82,17 @@ fakeroot rootfs_ipk_do_rootfs () {
>   	
>   	rm -f ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}${opkglibdir}/lists/*
>
> +	if ${@base_contains("IMAGE_FEATURES", "package-management", "false", "true", d)}; then
> +		if [ $runtime_script_required -eq 0 ]; then
> +			# All packages were successfully configured.
> +			# update-rc.d, base-passwd are no further use, remove them now
> +			opkg-cl ${IPKG_ARGS} --force-depends remove update-rc.d base-passwd || true
> +
> +			# Also delete the status files
> +			rm -rf ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}${opkglibdir}
> +		fi
> +	fi
> +
>   	log_check rootfs 	
>   }
>
Merged into oe-core

Thanks
	Sau!