From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Edwards Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 17:35:19 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Buildroot] package management References: <20110514115341.6706c4f5@surf> <20110514172642.3798873a@surf> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 2011-05-14, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > On Sat, 14 May 2011 13:49:07 +0000 (UTC) > Grant Edwards wrote: > >> > Soon, quite certainly not. Someday, maybe. But there's a lot of >> > work to be done at the package infrastructure level to make this >> > possible. It is not as simple as one might initially think to add >> > this kind of features. >> >> I'm curious about this. I'm using ipkg and it works fine. Opkg seems >> to be based on (and very similar to) ipkg. What is different about >> opkg that makes it difficult? > > Maybe I misunderstood Xianghua initial request. Or perhaps I did. > I thought he was asking for Buildroot to generate ipkg/opkg packages, > which Buildroot isn't capable of doing at the moment. Ah, he probably was. > If he is asking about having the opkg/ipkg-utils installed in a > Buildroot system, then obviously it's fairly easy. That's what I'm doing with ipkg. I have ipkg utilties enabled in my buildroot system. My "user" applications are built outside of buildroot and packaged using ipkg. Then I install them on the buildroot target using ipkg. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Now that I have my at "APPLE", I comprehend COST gmail.com ACCOUNTING!!