On Thu, 2016-12-01 at 10:40 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote: > Required for meta-swupd performance enhancements: in meta-swupd, the > so called "mega" image contains a rootfs with all files that can > potentially be installed on a device. Other virtual image recipes need > a subset of those files or directories, and a partial extraction from > a single tar archive is faster than letting all virtual image recipes > share access to a directory under a single pseudo instance. > > It may be necessary to extract a directory with all of its attributes > without the content of the directory, hence this patch. Upstream > agreed to consider merging such a patch (see > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/libarchive-discuss/JO3hqSaAVfs) > but has been slow in actually commenting on it, so for now it has > to be carried as distro patch.
Ping? Alexander, you touched libarchive most recently. Any thoughts on this? I could carry the patch also in meta-swupd, if that's preferred. It just doesn't feel very clean for such a layer to modify a core recipe like that. -- Best Regards, Patrick Ohly The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak on behalf of Intel on this matter. -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
