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 8599D4C802F2 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:58:47 -0500 (CDT) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 999) id 0652A16601A1; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:58:44 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2-r929478 (2010-03-31) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2-r929478 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3B0D16600F4; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:58:42 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <4D86B0D2.2070004@mlbassoc.com> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:58:42 -0600 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poky Subject: RPM vs IPK X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.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: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 01:58:47 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I know that historically Poky has used 'ipk' as the primary packaging mechanism. It seems that now Poky/Yocto has move to 'rpm'. My distribution is still using ipk, but I'm happy to change, given a good argument. * Is there such [a good reason] to use rpm over ipk? * What are the pros and cons? I'm mostly interested in very resource limited deeply embedded systems which often only run from FLASH. Thanks for any comments -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------