[oe] [RFC] Solving ipkg-utils issues

[Koen Kooi]

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Richard Purdie schreef:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> Thanks for looking at this, its something that does need fixing.
> 
> On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 11:52 +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>>   For quite some time bugs in ipkg-utils package (mostly in
>> ipkg-make-index tool) plagued image creation process in OE. Many of
>> them are known to old-time developers, and being (manually) worked
>> around. I was working on resolving them for some time, and guess now
>> finally have both clear picture of the issues and their interaction
>> with each other, and fixes for them. So, I would like to push these
>> fixes to mainline, and am opening this thread for review of
>> them, as well as to collect any other concerns about ipkg-utils.
>>
>>   In my list, there're 3 major issues:
>>
>> 1. Broken version comparison logic in ipkg-utils (note that this is
>> exactly ipkg-utils issues, nether bitbake nor ipkg is affected).
>>
>> 2. Inability of ipkg-make-index to detect packages which were updated,
>> while version stays the same.
>>
>> 3. Performance issues.
>>
>>
>>   Patch for p.1 is here: http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2061
> 
> I agree with fixing all the above. I've only had a quick glance at the
> actual patch but I'm fine with committing it and getting testing that
> way. There is python version comparison code in bitbake which may or may
> not be of use.
> 
> Does this correctly handle epochs btw? We're going to need that soon...

It does, we debugged that yesterday :)

regards,

Koen
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