[OE-core] opkg in svn?

[Paul Barker]

On 18 November 2013 12:03, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> Looking at opkg, I did have one other question. Currently in most builds
> we build opkg (either as the package manager or at least for
> update-alternatives). opkg is in svn but its one of the few remaining
> components we use from svn. It means we have to build subversion-native
> which has a fairly long dependency chain. It would be nice if we didn't
> need to so is there any chance we can move opkg to git?
>
> An alternative would be to have good tarball releases we could use
> instead?
>

The answer is yes to both of these. In my queue of patches to oe-core
which I'm currently testing is an update to the opkg-0.2.0, downloaded
as a tarball instead of from svn.

I'm also trying to organise git hosting for opkg within Yocto Project,
I think I'm waiting to hear back from Michael Halstead on a couple of
questions.

It's just a bit slow going as I'm very busy with other work at the
minute. I can send the patches I have as RFCs if someone else has time
to test them - I know opkg-0.2.0 builds correctly, I just haven't had
time to generate a package feed and try to do a live update of
something on a real board running opkg-0.2.0. It's on my todo list but
it may be a few days or weeks before I find time to test this out.

-- 
Paul Barker

Email: paul at paulbarker.me.uk
http://www.paulbarker.me.uk