The libsolv backend is vastly superior than the currently enabled internal ad-hoc solver. While the switch does have a small impact on disk and memory footprint, it make sense to change the default as for most cases the disk/memory footprint hit should be acceptable.
======================== Disk Footprint Increase ======================== qemux86-64 523K qemuarm 445K qemux86 576K ==================================================== Command [1] Libsolv Internal Solver ==================================================== opkg update 26.21 MB 26.21 MB opkg list 29.87 MB 29.87 MB opkg install procps 30.99 MB 27.33 MB opkg remove procps 1.69 MB 1.69 MB opkg update 30.97 MB 27.75 MB [1] Profile done via 'valgrind --tool=massif <command>' in a feed with ~18K packages. Signed-off-by: Alejandro del Castillo <alejandro.delcasti...@ni.com> --- meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_0.3.4.bb | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_0.3.4.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_0.3.4.bb index 6ac9438..e298185 100644 --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_0.3.4.bb +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_0.3.4.bb @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "opkg-configure.service" target_localstatedir := "${localstatedir}" OPKGLIBDIR = "${target_localstatedir}/lib" -PACKAGECONFIG ??= "" +PACKAGECONFIG ??= "libsolv" PACKAGECONFIG[gpg] = "--enable-gpg,--disable-gpg,gpgme libgpg-error,gnupg" PACKAGECONFIG[curl] = "--enable-curl,--disable-curl,curl" -- 2.7.4 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core