[yocto] [opkg-utils][PATCH 00/22] Partially prepare for python3 and fix old Packages file reuse

[Saul Wold]

Martin,

Just wanted to let you know that this was received, I am holding off 
doing anything about it right now until we get through the current 
release process, this will be build and tested with early in the 1.3 as 
appropriate.

Thanks
	Sau!


On 03/29/2012 03:21 PM, Martin Jansa wrote:
> First 5 patches are taken from oe-core.
>
> Then there are some cleanups and fixes for issues I've found while looking
> for cause of very long package-index calls.
>
> Some patches uses compatible changes from 2to3 (tested with python2.7), but
> python3 support is not 100% complete, but were closer.
>
> And in the end I've found the cause.. printing long fields (e. g. description)
> with opkg.py was producing empty lines in Packages file (which are Packages entry
> separators) so only first entries till first empty line were processed from old
> Packages file and the rest was always extracted from control files in packaged .ipk.
>
> And this also fixes Packages.filelist generation.
>
> I don't use python very much, so please review.
>
> And the speedup? Almost 60 times :)
> before:
> real    20m10.484s
> user    18m32.335s
> sys     0m11.885s
>
> after
> real    0m24.492s
> user    0m23.748s
> sys     0m0.565s
>
> The following changes since commit 002d29bc605d7c2d02e4cf20a43c5277c15f5597:
>
>    [opkg-utils] fix install fail problem  Thanks for khorben's patch :-)  https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/attachment/ticket/2072/patch-opkg-utils_Makefile_install_path.diff (2008-11-03 03:59:59 +0000)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>    git://github.com/shr-project/opkg-utils jansa/pull
>    https://github.com/shr-project/opkg-utils/tree/jansa/pull
>
> Christopher Larson (1):
>    Use python via the PATH, rather than hardcoding /usr/bin/python
>
> Enrico Scholz (1):
>    opkg-make-index: convert mtime to int before comparing it
>
> Khem Raj (1):
>    opkg.py: Add knowledge about License field in ipk headers
>
> Martin Jansa (17):
>    opkg.py: use hashlib instead of old md5 module
>    opkg.py, arfile.py: report which file has wrong format and use the
>      same test
>    arfile: decode read lines as ascii string before getting fields from
>      it
>    2to3: use subprocess instead of commands
>    2to3: print fixes
>    2to3: dictionary fixes
>    2to3: exception handling fixes
>    opkg-make-index: show OSError/IOError
>    opkg.py: use string funtcions directly on string variable
>    opkg.py: catch TypeError when reading control file, to show which one
>      is failing
>    arfile: fix test
>    opkg-make-index: don't use stdout for Packages output and use __str__
>      instead of __repr__
>    opkg.py: cast lines from controlfile as string
>    opkg.py: computeFileMD5 only when we have fn, otherwise fails to read
>      None file
>    opkg.py: fix write_package when called from main test
>    opkg.py: use textwrap for description writing
>    opkg.py: improve test so it prints temporary control file with long
>      description and then reads it back
>
> Richard Purdie (1):
>    opkg-make-index: don't error out when some package disappears
>
> Scott Anderson (1):
>    arfile.py: handle six digit UIDs
>
>   arfile.py            |   55 +++++++++++++---------
>   makePackage          |    2 +-
>   opkg-compare-indexes |   22 ++++----
>   opkg-list-fields     |    4 +-
>   opkg-make-index      |   74 +++++++++++++++++++----------
>   opkg-show-deps       |   28 +++++------
>   opkg-unbuild         |    4 +-
>   opkg-update-index    |    5 +-
>   opkg.py              |  125 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>   9 files changed, 186 insertions(+), 133 deletions(-)
>