From: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
To: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: Schizophrenic package management
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:05:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2362664.v47zrqRqfa@helios> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F7B38C7.6010909@mlbassoc.com>
On Tuesday 03 April 2012 11:52:07 Gary Thomas wrote:
> Why are both opkg-native and rpm-native needed to build images?
> When I asked this previously, I was told that rpm was used because
> it has superior dependency tracking. Fair enough (I guess), but
> then why is opkg required if I build an image using
> PACKAGE_CLASSES = "package_rpm"
On the face of it it seems odd; however the reason you get both built no
matter which you choose is we need some component of each one regardless of
what packaging system is chosen:
* opkg is needed to provide update-alternatives-cworth
* rpm is needed to provide rpmdeps
Cheers,
Paul
--
Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-03 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-03 17:52 Schizophrenic package management Gary Thomas
2012-04-03 18:03 ` Mark Hatle
2012-04-03 18:07 ` Gary Thomas
2012-04-03 18:17 ` Mark Hatle
2012-04-03 18:21 ` Chris Larson
2012-04-03 18:24 ` Mark Hatle
2012-04-03 18:23 ` Gary Thomas
2012-04-04 10:23 ` Steffen Sledz
2012-04-04 19:01 ` Colin Walters
2012-04-03 18:05 ` Paul Eggleton [this message]
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