Setting PACKAGE_ENABLE_FILELIST option generates Packages.filelist on `bitbake package-index`, which is index of files provided by each IPK package in the feed. It's useful for figuring out which package provides a particular file/program/library/etc.
Disabled by default since generating a filelist involves reading the payload of every package in the feed, a time and IO intensive operation many users won't want to run. Those who do may flip this switch. Testing: * Built an opkg index with PACKAGE_ENABLE_FILELIST unset and verified no Packages.filelist are generated. * Built with PACKAGE_ENABLE_FILELIST="1" and verified each subfeed has Packages.filelist; took ~3min longer for 8,200 IPKs. Signed-off-by: Haris Okanovic <haris.okano...@ni.com> --- meta/lib/oe/package_manager.py | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/meta/lib/oe/package_manager.py b/meta/lib/oe/package_manager.py index b4b359a8c6..5e1fc48500 100644 --- a/meta/lib/oe/package_manager.py +++ b/meta/lib/oe/package_manager.py @@ -161,6 +161,8 @@ class OpkgIndexer(Indexer): else: signer = None + enable_filelist = bb.utils.to_boolean(self.d.getVar('PACKAGE_ENABLE_FILELIST', True) or "False") + if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(self.deploy_dir, "Packages")): open(os.path.join(self.deploy_dir, "Packages"), "w").close() @@ -175,14 +177,18 @@ class OpkgIndexer(Indexer): pkgs_dir = os.path.join(self.deploy_dir, arch) pkgs_file = os.path.join(pkgs_dir, "Packages") + filelist_cmd = "" + if enable_filelist: + filelist_cmd = '-l %s.filelist' % (pkgs_file) + if not os.path.isdir(pkgs_dir): continue if not os.path.exists(pkgs_file): open(pkgs_file, "w").close() - index_cmds.add('%s -r %s -p %s -m %s' % - (opkg_index_cmd, pkgs_file, pkgs_file, pkgs_dir)) + index_cmds.add('%s -r %s -p %s -m %s %s' % + (opkg_index_cmd, pkgs_file, pkgs_file, filelist_cmd, pkgs_dir)) index_sign_files.add(pkgs_file) -- 2.13.2 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core