From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (hermes.mlbassoc.com [64.234.241.98]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A5494C80BD4 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:33:58 -0500 (CDT) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 999) id 78ACE1660717; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:33:57 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from hermes.chez-thomas.org (hermes_local [192.168.1.101]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1262F1660717; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:33:57 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <4CCB3DC4.6070604@mlbassoc.com> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:33:56 -0600 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100430 Fedora/3.0.4-2.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poky Subject: RPM vs IPK X-BeenThere: poky@pokylinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:33:58 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I notice that in the latest master, rpm-native is always built, even if I'm using ipk style packaging. * Why? * Why should I choose one over the other? I'm happy using rpm (been using it for 15 years!) but I wonder why the switch? Is rpm to become the de-facto packaging for Poky builds? -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------