[Buildroot] Adding support for ipk packages creation?

[Buildroot] Adding support for ipk packages creation?

[Ivan Wagner]

Dear all,

I think it has been discussed several times during the past and as far
as I understand buildroot provides a basic (or advanced) creation of a
rootfs together with bootloader and kernel.

Has anyone ever thought of adding support, or better, does it make
sense to add support for the creation of packages?

regards,

Ivan

[Buildroot] Adding support for ipk packages creation?

[Yann E. MORIN]

Ivan, All,

On 2014-01-05 20:41 +0100, Ivan Wagner spake thusly:
> I think it has been discussed several times during the past and as far
> as I understand buildroot provides a basic (or advanced) creation of a
> rootfs together with bootloader and kernel.
> 
> Has anyone ever thought of adding support, or better, does it make
> sense to add support for the creation of packages?

Buildroot explicitly avoids generating binary packages, on purpose.

Buildroot strive at making it easy to generate a root filesystem (hence
the name, by the way). That is what we want to make Buildroot good at:
building a root filesystem.

Buildroot is not meant to be a distribution (or rather, a distribution
generator). It is the opinion of most Buildroot developpers (me included)
that this is not a goal we should pursue. We believe that there are other
tools better suited to generate a distro than Buildroot is. For example,
Open Embedded, or openWRT, are such tools.

Rather, we prefer to push Buildroot in a direction that makes it easy
(or even easier) to generate complete root filesystems. This is what
makes Buildroot stands out in the crowd (among other things, of course!).

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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