In various tests, this is showing a speedup for install operations on the order of 20-25% (very noticeable for e.g. the ISO generation scripts).
This is also part of the preparation for dropping the py2 pisi package (which owns the eopkg symlink at the time of this writing).
Note that this will keep using eopkg.py2 for building old pspec.xml packages for now; switching to using the explicit version avoids solbuild having to rely on which package owns the eopkg symlink.
When the epoch happens and eopkg.py2 is dropped from the repo, BuildXML needs to be changed to use eopkg.py3.
In various tests, this is showing a speedup for install operations on the order of 20-25% (very noticeable for e.g. the ISO generation scripts).
This is also part of the preparation for dropping the py2 pisi package (which owns the
eopkgsymlink at the time of this writing).Note that this will keep using
eopkg.py2for building old pspec.xml packages for now; switching to using the explicit version avoids solbuild having to rely on which package owns theeopkgsymlink.When the epoch happens and eopkg.py2 is dropped from the repo, BuildXML needs to be changed to use
eopkg.py3.