Re: [RFC] move to opkg

[Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.kabel.utwente.nl>]

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Geoffrey Wossum schreef:
| On Tuesday 18 March 2008 03:55:01 am Koen Kooi wrote:
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|> Poky just switched to opkg and removed ipkg completely, which I think
|> is a good thing, but here's a less drastic patch for OE.
|>
|> Executive summary: you still get .ipk packages, just as before, only
|> your rootfs ends up with opkg.  Things like sharprom-compat and wrt54g-
|> oe will continue to work just as before.
|
| I understand that opkg is a fork of ipkg, since ipkg was unmaintained.
  But
| could someone explain what, if anything, this means to me as someone
| currently building a product using OpenEmbedded for the underpinning?

It means that after this gets applied you login to your product:

ssh user@mytarget
$ su -
Password:
# ipkg update
sh: ipkg: : command not found
# opkg update
<output of opkg downloading stuff from feeds>

So from a device user POV you need to type 'opkg' instead of 'ipkg'.
~From a developer POV you gain PGP signed packages.

regards,

Koen
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