[oe] Fixing ipkg-make-index slowness

[Koen Kooi]

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Paul Sokolovsky schreef:
> Hello Koen,
> 
> Friday, January 5, 2007, 11:21:51 AM, you wrote:
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>> Paul Sokolovsky schreef:
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>>> 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.
> 
>   Then we probably need to separate image building from feed
> creation/setup. IIRC, i-m-i currently run during image building
> too, and it steals precious minutes from each developer (vs
> distro/feed maintainer) multiple times a day. Having Packages
> to be updated only by explicit "bitbake package-index" seems
> like good compromise and corresponds to the docs which suggest
> to do that explicitly.

You just broke image creation with your suggestion.
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