[Buildroot] opkg updates?

[Buildroot] opkg updates?

[Baker, Derek]

Hi,


We've determined that having a more recent version of opkg would make our lives easier, but notice that the opkg version that ships with buildroot is quite old. Are there plans to update that to a more recent version? If not, can someone explain why so I can pass that on to my team? If there are plans to update it, can someone let me know when that might happen?


Thanks

Derek

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[Buildroot] opkg updates?

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello Derek,

On Tue, 22 May 2018 15:46:05 +0000, Baker, Derek wrote:

> We've determined that having a more recent version of opkg would make
> our lives easier, but notice that the opkg version that ships with
> buildroot is quite old. Are there plans to update that to a more
> recent version? If not, can someone explain why so I can pass that on
> to my team? If there are plans to update it, can someone let me know
> when that might happen?

Packages are updated when someone sends a patch to update it. So if you
need the opkg package to be updated, we would very much welcome a patch
doing this!

Best regards,

Thomas
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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

[Buildroot] opkg updates?

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Derek,

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 03:46:05PM +0000, Baker, Derek wrote:
> We've determined that having a more recent version of opkg would make our 
> lives easier, but notice that the opkg version that ships with buildroot is 
> quite old. Are there plans to update that to a more recent version? If not, 
> can someone explain why so I can pass that on to my team? If there are plans 
> to update it, can someone let me know when that might happen?

opkg has not been updated because nobody sent a patch for doing so. Feel free 
to post a version bump patch to this list.

We are now in the -rc stage of the upcoming 2018.05 release. Version bump 
patches are applied to the 'next' branch. They will be included in the 2018.08 
release.

baruch

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[Buildroot] opkg updates?

[Baker, Derek]

Did you just patch it? If so that's amazing and thanks so much :)

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From: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 12:19:54 PM
To: Baker, Derek
Cc: buildroot at busybox.net
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] opkg updates?

Hi Derek,

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 03:46:05PM +0000, Baker, Derek wrote:
> We've determined that having a more recent version of opkg would make our
> lives easier, but notice that the opkg version that ships with buildroot is
> quite old. Are there plans to update that to a more recent version? If not,
> can someone explain why so I can pass that on to my team? If there are plans
> to update it, can someone let me know when that might happen?

opkg has not been updated because nobody sent a patch for doing so. Feel free
to post a version bump patch to this list.

We are now in the -rc stage of the upcoming 2018.05 release. Version bump
patches are applied to the 'next' branch. They will be included in the 2018.08
release.

baruch

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[Buildroot] opkg updates?

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Derek,

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 07:10:35PM +0000, Baker, Derek wrote:
> Did you just patch it? If so that's amazing and thanks so much :)

Peter committed the opkg version bump to the 'next' branch, so it should be in 
the 2018.08 release.

  https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/commit/?h=next&id=879aada6c6c4b0331f6231582032f66bd82a3104

baruch

> From: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 12:19:54 PM
> To: Baker, Derek
> Cc: buildroot at busybox.net
> Subject: Re: [Buildroot] opkg updates?
> 
> Hi Derek,
> 
> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 03:46:05PM +0000, Baker, Derek wrote:
> > We've determined that having a more recent version of opkg would make our
> > lives easier, but notice that the opkg version that ships with buildroot is
> > quite old. Are there plans to update that to a more recent version? If not,
> > can someone explain why so I can pass that on to my team? If there are plans
> > to update it, can someone let me know when that might happen?
> 
> opkg has not been updated because nobody sent a patch for doing so. Feel free
> to post a version bump patch to this list.
> 
> We are now in the -rc stage of the upcoming 2018.05 release. Version bump
> patches are applied to the 'next' branch. They will be included in the 2018.08
> release.
> 
> baruch

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