From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.kernelconcepts.de ([212.60.202.196]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N9zHw-0006fq-4l for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:58:31 +0100 Received: from [192.168.2.131] by mail.kernelconcepts.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1N9zOa-0006M9-8A for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:05:20 +0100 Message-ID: <4B013004.8010602@kernelconcepts.de> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:57:08 +0100 From: Florian Boor User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <1257959521.25369.393.camel@lenovo.internal.reciva.com> In-Reply-To: <1257959521.25369.393.camel@lenovo.internal.reciva.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 212.60.202.196 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: florian.boor@kernelconcepts.de X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxtogo.org); Unknown failure Subject: Re: OEDEM 2009 summary: Package management 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: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:58:31 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Phil Blundell schrieb: > PB: opkg generally performs OK within its own "comfort envelope". Main > triggers for badness seem to be online upgrades, and the requirement to > make a decision between two alternatives. If you stay away from those > things and use opkg only for image construction then it is not so bad. I have not tried much online upgrades for some time but I ran into package selection issues lately. We always suffered from the problem that opkg failed with an error message if the same package was available with two different architectures... but this is fixed upstream now. greetings Florian -- The dream of yesterday Florian Boor is the hope of today Tel: +49 271-771091-15 and the reality of tomorrow. Fax: +49 271-771091-19 [Robert Hutchings Goddard, 1904] florian.boor@kernelconcepts.de http://www.kernelconcepts.de/en