[Buildroot] dpkg and apt for buildroot?

[Buildroot] dpkg and apt for buildroot?

[Mark Mason]

Has anyone already done the footwork to add dpkg and apt (at least a
secure apt-get, I'm not sure what other dependancies there are)?

I ran across some mail from July 2013 with patches for dpkg, which
were very close to working, but I didn't see any for apt.  I'm kind of
surprised that apt and friends aren't an option - am I about to run
into something unexpectedly complicated, or is complex package
management like apt/dpkg provides just generally outside of
buildroot's scope?

While I'm at it, almost all of the traffic on this list is related to
development of buildroot rather than development with buildroot.  Is
there a better place for questions (after the documentation and web
searches have not provided answers), or is this it?

[Buildroot] dpkg and apt for buildroot?

[Yegor Yefremov]

Dear Mark,

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Mark Mason
<mason+buildroot@postdiluvian.org> wrote:
> Has anyone already done the footwork to add dpkg and apt (at least a
> secure apt-get, I'm not sure what other dependancies there are)?
>
> I ran across some mail from July 2013 with patches for dpkg, which
> were very close to working, but I didn't see any for apt.  I'm kind of
> surprised that apt and friends aren't an option - am I about to run
> into something unexpectedly complicated, or is complex package
> management like apt/dpkg provides just generally outside of
> buildroot's scope?
>
> While I'm at it, almost all of the traffic on this list is related to
> development of buildroot rather than development with buildroot.  Is
> there a better place for questions (after the documentation and web
> searches have not provided answers), or is this it?

Have you read this section?
http://nightly.buildroot.org/manual.html#faq-no-binary-packages

Yegor

[Buildroot] dpkg and apt for buildroot?

[Mark Mason]

Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Dear Mark,
> 
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Mark Mason
> <mason+buildroot@postdiluvian.org> wrote:
> > Has anyone already done the footwork to add dpkg and apt (at least a
> > secure apt-get, I'm not sure what other dependancies there are)?
> >
> > I ran across some mail from July 2013 with patches for dpkg, which
> > were very close to working, but I didn't see any for apt.  I'm kind of
> > surprised that apt and friends aren't an option - am I about to run
> > into something unexpectedly complicated, or is complex package
> > management like apt/dpkg provides just generally outside of
> > buildroot's scope?
> >
> > While I'm at it, almost all of the traffic on this list is related to
> > development of buildroot rather than development with buildroot.  Is
> > there a better place for questions (after the documentation and web
> > searches have not provided answers), or is this it?
> 
> Have you read this section?
> http://nightly.buildroot.org/manual.html#faq-no-binary-packages

Sorry for the delays, I've been working on other stuff, just got back
to the packages.

I did read that section, but I'm not looking for packages of
buildroot, I just need apt to maintain software that's not part of
buildroot.

[Buildroot] dpkg and apt for buildroot?

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 14/04/15 22:02, Mark Mason wrote:
> While I'm at it, almost all of the traffic on this list is related to
> development of buildroot rather than development with buildroot.  Is
> there a better place for questions (after the documentation and web
> searches have not provided answers), or is this it?

 This is it. Development with buildroot pretty quickly winds down to development
of buildroot, since you'll often have to add some package - not so much because
buildroot doesn't have enough packages, but rather because it is used in pretty
specific circumstances that require adding specific packages.

 We have considered splitting the list into a buildroot-devel and
buildroot-users, but the buildroot-users list would be almost empty, and the
devel subjects (i.e. new packages being added) are often also relevant for users.

 Regards,
 Arnout

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