From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [195.149.226.213] (helo=smtp.host4.kei.pl) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L2lPd-0007Qx-AB for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:40:01 +0100 Received: (qmail 5320 invoked by uid 813007); 19 Nov 2008 11:37:32 -0000 X-clamdmail: clamdmail 0.18a Received: from 195.149.226.213 (HELO home.localnet) (marcin@haerwu.biz@195.149.226.213) by 195.149.226.213 with ESMTPA; 19 Nov 2008 11:37:32 -0000 From: Marcin Juszkiewicz To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:37:22 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.3 (Linux/2.6.28-rc4; KDE/4.1.3; x86_64; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200811191237.23958.openembedded@haerwu.biz> Subject: [Review] RPM support from Poky X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:40:01 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi Few years ago we got partially working RPM support (which no one used). When Intel acquired OpenedHand there was lot of work put in getting RPM support really working. We got: - creating of RPM packages (with deps, recommends) - creating images from RPM packages - creating images from feeds with RPM packages - installing packages on devices (from file or feeds) Thanks to the fact that OpenEmbedded uses git I was able to extract all required patches to get it imported from Poky. Result is available as 'hrw/poky-rpm' branch on OE git server. It is not tested yet (build in progress). Any testers/reviewers are welcome. Regards, -- JID: hrw@jabber.org Website: http://blog.haerwu.biz/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcinjuszkiewicz