Re: Upgrade to a package with all its dependency without network

[Marco <koansoftware@gmail.com>]

Il 05/05/2014 17:29, Paul Barker ha scritto:
> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 04:16:46PM +0200, Marco wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I need to be able to upgrade to a package with all its dependency chain on a
>> target system that does not have access to the network.
>>
>> I'm trying to understand what may be the best and also the simplest
>> solution.
>> Perhaps there is already this functionality in OE/Yocto?
>>
>> I thought to implement a new opkg feture so that I can to generate the list
>> of dependencies of a package and then extract the packages from OE/Yocto
>> using a script or an application.
>
> opkg v0.2.x (the latest release series) doesn't really support this behaviour
> very well. The caching logic just doesn't work. For example, I have a board
> connected at the minute with a feed configured so I tried this:
>
>      opkg install --download-only ncurses-terminfo
>      ifdown eth0
>      opkg install ncurses-terminfo
>
> You'd hope that would pick up the package files from the cache but it doesn't.
> So even if you put the files there yourself, you may no have a simple way to
> install them.
>
> An interim solution I can see is to put all the packages you want in one
> directory then run 'opkg-make-index' from opkg-utils on that directory so that
> it is a complete package feed. Then add that as a source in
> /etc/opkg/base-feeds.conf.
>

Hi Paul,
thank you for answering.

This is exactly the main problem, how to extract all the packages I (or 
I should say the package itself) want, in one directory.
Would be possible to extend opkg with this feature?

Cheers
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Marco Cavallini | KOAN sas | Bergamo - Italia