From: Phil Blundell Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 12:20:05 +0000 (+0100) Subject: opkg: Don't call sync() when installing into an offline root X-Git-Tag: rev_ivi_2015_02_04~15306 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2c39a00462663a97b5e3ace646af7a7c64ccee83;p=scm%2Fbb%2Ftizen-distro.git opkg: Don't call sync() when installing into an offline root Even when installing onto a live target system, calling sync() during package installation is of somewhat questionable benefit. But calling it on the build host during rootfs construction is certainly useless and can cause I/O to stall for several seconds on even a moderately sized host which is clearly not desirable. (From a patch originally by Mike Crowe.) (From OE-Core rev: f48a68177510e8f2d4fcc3725a6dfc41a9a8e96b) Signed-off-by: Phil Blundell Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg/opkg-no-sync-offline.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg/opkg-no-sync-offline.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b1b3453 --- /dev/null +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg/opkg-no-sync-offline.patch @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +When installing into an offline root, calling sync() is pointless and just +hurts performance. Don't let's do that. + +Signed-off-by: Phil Blundell +Upstream-Status: Pending + +--- a/libopkg/opkg_cmd.c 2011-09-08 10:53:07.000000000 +0100 ++++ b/libopkg/opkg_cmd.c 2011-10-04 10:45:22.278615584 +0100 +@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ write_status_files_if_changed(void) + opkg_msg(INFO, "Writing status file.\n"); + opkg_conf_write_status_files(); + pkg_write_changed_filelists(); +- sync(); ++ if (!conf->offline_root) ++ sync(); + } else { + opkg_msg(DEBUG, "Nothing to be done.\n"); + } diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_svn.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_svn.bb index d89a3f6..59bb2d9 100644 --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_svn.bb +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg/opkg_svn.bb @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ SRC_URI = "svn://opkg.googlecode.com/svn;module=trunk;protocol=http \ file://0008-select_higher_version.patch \ file://0009-pkg_depends-fix-version-constraints.patch \ file://0010-pkg_depends-fix-version_constraints_satisfied.patch \ + file://opkg-no-sync-offline.patch \ " S = "${WORKDIR}/trunk" @@ -18,4 +19,4 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/trunk" SRCREV = "633" PV = "0.1.8+svnr${SRCPV}" -PR = "${INC_PR}.5" +PR = "${INC_PR}.6"