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Subject: Re: [Review] RPM support from Poky
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On 19-11-08 12:37, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> Hi
>
> Few years ago we got partially working RPM support (which no one used).
> When Intel acquired OpenedHand there was lot of work put in getting RPM
> support really working. We got:
>
> - creating of RPM packages (with deps, recommends)
> - creating images from RPM packages
> - creating images from feeds with RPM packages
> - installing packages on devices (from file or feeds)
>
> Thanks to the fact that OpenEmbedded uses git I was able to extract all
> required patches to get it imported from Poky. Result is available as
> 'hrw/poky-rpm' branch on OE git server.
>
> It is not tested yet (build in progress). Any testers/reviewers are
> welcome.

The non RPM bits look ok to me, I don't know anything about RPM so I 
won't comment about that.

regards,

Koen