From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Mason Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:35:47 -0400 Subject: [Buildroot] dpkg and apt for buildroot? In-Reply-To: References: <20150414200222.GB7501@postdiluvian.org> Message-ID: <20150420193546.GA3801@postdiluvian.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Yegor Yefremov wrote: > Dear Mark, > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Mark Mason > 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.