[oe] Fixing ipkg-make-index slowness

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl
Fri Jan 5 09:21:51 UTC 2007


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Paul Sokolovsky schreef:

> 
> Richard, what were the reasons for such conservative file matching?
> Filename matching should be just enough, as per OE convention, any
> package source changes leading to changes in the package metadata must
> lead to bumping of package recipe's PR, and that in turn updates package
> filename.

It isn't enough. If you repackages the exact same files at a later date, the timestamps in
the tarball have changed, and hence the md5 will be different. When a user will download a
package ipkg will check the md5sum present in the index and abort if it doesn't match.

regards,

Koen
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