From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 17:26:42 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] package management In-Reply-To: References: <20110514115341.6706c4f5@surf> Message-ID: <20110514172642.3798873a@surf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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. 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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com