[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] package_deb: Use apt-ftparchive

[Robert Yang]

Hi Ricardo,

On 03/17/2014 03:59 PM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> Hello Richard.
>
> I have tested it with dora. I can rebase it.
>

If it is for dora, then the Subject should in include [dora]

> Shall I rebase it over git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky or over
> git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core
>

I think that openembedded-core is preferred.

// Robert

> Thanks!
>
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 14:27 +0100, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
>>> Use apt-ftparchive to create a Release file compatible with SecureApt.
>>>
>>> apt-ftparchive is not compatible with libpseudo. The calls to ftw()
>>> returns the path in absolute format instead of relative. This produces
>>> wrong Packages and Release files.
>>>
>>> ie:
>>> MD5Sum:
>>> d20227a958f6870137ce0e41b7b84307             1453
>>> /home/ricardo/curro/qtec/qt5022/build-qt5022-cesium/build/tmp/deploy/deb/all/Release
>>>
>>> This is why it is called with PSEUDO_UNLOAD.
>>>
>>> apt-ftparchive is also a more efficient replacement of dpkg-scanpackages:
>>>
>>> root at neopili:~/curro/qtec/qt5022/build-qt5022-cesium/build/tmp/deploy/deb/bobcat
>>> _64# time PSEUDO_UNLOAD=1 apt-ftparchive packages . >/tmp/kkk
>>> real 0m26.873s
>>> user 0m20.968s
>>> sys 0m1.212s
>>>
>>> root at neopili:~/curro/qtec/qt5022/build-qt5022-cesium/build/tmp/deploy/deb/bobcat
>>> _64# time PSEUDO_UNLOAD=1 dpkg-scanpackages . >/tmp/kkk
>>> dpkg-scanpackages: info: Wrote 6022 entries to output Packages file.
>>> real 0m59.721s
>>> user 0m16.668s
>>> sys 0m11.164s
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda at gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>   meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass | 4 +++-
>>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> This doesn't apply against master? What was this tested against?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Richard
>>
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