From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (mail.mlbassoc.com [65.100.170.105]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC1D9E016C5 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 14:04:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 1998) id 39D46F811E4; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 15:04:16 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) 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=3.3.2 Received: from [192.168.1.114] (zeus [192.168.1.114]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CADF4F811E0; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 15:04:14 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <52547357.7080503@mlbassoc.com> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 15:04:23 -0600 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: poky@yoctoproject.org References: <7BDD69127112414F90CF3FED4711BF150D15A47B39@IAD2MBX05.mex02.mlsrvr.com> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Best supported package manager? X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion & patch submission for meta-yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 21:04:22 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2013-10-08 14:09, Rudolf Streif wrote: > >>Which package manager (ipk, rpm, deb) is best supported currently in poky? I am wondering which manager is the most tested and stable? > > RPM is the default package manager. I would expect that it has gotten the most mileage so far because of that. All of them are tested with autobuilder. IPK is probably the next > commonly used one since popular for embedded systems for its leightweight and smaller footprint design. You can have YP build for any combination of the package managers at the > same time. The builds just take longer. I recommend starting with RPM and when your system boots try out the other ones if you need to. Actually, the package manager is a distribution choice and while Poky might use RPM, many others use IPK. Of course this is just the default and depending on your distribution you may be able to override that choice. Each style of packaging has it's pros and cons (see the mailing list archives) but for embedded systems IPK is a winner due to its much lighter footprint (at least that's my experience). Also note that Poky (and OE in general) used IPK for much longer than they have been using RPM which has only been in the past couple of years :-) -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------