From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernhard Fischer Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:07:22 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] which ipkg? In-Reply-To: <20070417111330.GB12656@zelow.no> References: <20070417101631.GA12039@zelow.no> <20070417111330.GB12656@zelow.no> Message-ID: <20070417150722.GJ23570@aon.at> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 01:13:30PM +0200, Thomas Lundquist wrote: >On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 12:16:31PM +0200, Thomas Lundquist wrote: >> >> The big question is; which ipkg version should I/we go for? >> handhelds.org has at least two options, the original shell script based >> (ipkg-utils) or a C-based newer one. > >Seems like I should read a bit more about ipkg. > >http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/BuildingIpkgs uses ipkg-utils for >building / host side and not the target. > >so, it seems like they are using the C-version for unpaking/target side. > >OpenWRT also uses ipkg and have a ipkg shell script in their repository >but I haven't looked much at what / how they use. > >So, if anyone out there would like ipkg support in buildroot, let me >know how you want it and I'll try to fix it. I guess it's quite obvious >that I'm not familiar nor using ipkg :=) Ideally, we want ipkg in busybox, ultimately. I once looked at the normal ipkg for a few minutes, and from what i remember, providing a nice, working and small applet from it (by rewriting it) looked quite reasonable, fwiw.