On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 7:09 AM, Richard Purdie
<richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> liblzma is part of xz and we already build it but configure it out. This makes
> no sense. Enabling it means we gain multithreaded compression and it speeds
> dpkg-deb up massively. It also removes the fork overhead of separate xz
> processes.
>
> Turning the existing config into a PACKAGECONFIG and turning it on by default
> therefore makes best use of what we have available.
>
> The manual RDEPENDS are no longer needed since it uses liblzma which is picked
> up by the shlibs code magically.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org>
Yes, please. I've been using dpkg configured this way for a month or
so on my deb-based distro, and was going to submit a patch for this
myself. The performance improvement during packaging is significant,
and I haven't seen any downsides.
Thanks,
-Matt
> ---
> meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg.inc | 8 +++++---
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg.inc
> b/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg.inc
> index 6abe3ae..870117a 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg.inc
> @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ SECTION = "base"
>
> DEPENDS = "zlib bzip2 perl ncurses"
> DEPENDS_class-native = "bzip2-replacement-native zlib-native
> virtual/update-alternatives-native gettext-native perl-native"
> -RDEPENDS_${PN} = "${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_update-alternatives} xz perl"
> -RDEPENDS_${PN}_class-native = "xz-native"
> +RDEPENDS_${PN} = "${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_update-alternatives} perl"
> +RDEPENDS_${PN}_class-native = ""
>
> UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "${DEBIAN_MIRROR}/main/d/dpkg/"
>
> @@ -28,10 +28,12 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "\
> --enable-start-stop-daemon \
> --with-libz \
> --with-libbz2 \
> - --without-liblzma \
> --without-libselinux \
> "
>
> +PACKAGECONFIG = "liblzma"
> +PACKAGECONFIG[liblzma] = "--with-liblzma,--without-liblzma, xz"
> +
> EXTRA_OECONF += "TAR=tar"
> EXTRA_OECONF_append_class-target = " DEB_HOST_ARCH=${DPKG_ARCH}"
>
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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