From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] package management
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 17:26:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110514172642.3798873a@surf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iqm18j$peg$1@dough.gmane.org>
On Sat, 14 May 2011 13:49:07 +0000 (UTC)
Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> 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. I thought he was asking
for Buildroot to generate ipkg/opkg packages, which Buildroot isn't
capable of doing at the moment. If he is asking about having the
opkg/ipkg-utils installed in a Buildroot system, then obviously it's
fairly easy.
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-14 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-14 2:14 [Buildroot] package management Xianghua Xiao
2011-05-14 9:53 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2011-05-14 13:49 ` Grant Edwards
2011-05-14 15:26 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2011-05-14 17:35 ` Grant Edwards
2011-05-14 21:31 ` Xianghua Xiao
2011-05-16 4:04 ` Grant Edwards
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2012-11-27 18:25 [Buildroot] Package Management John Tobias
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