From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JbfFx-0000s7-PZ for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:05:47 +0100 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JbfFt-0002RF-Uz for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:05:42 +0000 Received: from s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl ([85.145.118.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:05:41 +0000 Received: from koen by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:05:41 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:05:35 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200803180849.21108.geoffrey@pager.net> <1205858910.7500.39.camel@dax.rpnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Macintosh/20080213) In-Reply-To: <1205858910.7500.39.camel@dax.rpnet.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Sender: news X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 80.91.229.2 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gcho-openembedded-devel@m.gmane.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on serenity X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.2.3 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:39:36 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Re: [RFC] move to opkg X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:05:48 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Richard Purdie schreef: | On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 15:32 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote: |> Geoffrey Wossum schreef: |> | 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 |> |> |> So from a device user POV you need to type 'opkg' instead of 'ipkg'. |> ~From a developer POV you gain PGP signed packages. | | That isn't the full story since the config files moved | from /usr/lib/ipkg to /usr/lib/opkg and distro maintainers need to be | wary of the transition. I think Angstrom has something to help with this | but I'm not sure? There is opkg-ipkg-compat.bb and angstrom-feed-configs.bb to help with a dual system, and opkg-r10.patch moves angstrom over to opkg completely. | While I think about this, would now be a good time to move the config | files to /var instead of /usr? I have no strong opinion on that. regards, Koen | Poky can't do that yet since we don't have the var changes in OE but I | think most of /var in OE is persistent now? | | Cheers, | | Richard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD4DBQFH3/ZfMkyGM64RGpERAp/pAKCBr14wI9/P6z9tc38Xa2w/dIXZZQCXUx6i L5hGyxpIf+jsTbuI54y8MA== =eF5Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----