[oe] [oe-commits] org.oe.dev ipkg-utils*: Re-add support for openwrt-style .ipk's.

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

Dnia Tuesday, 19 of February 2008, pfalcon commit napisał:
> ipkg-utils*: Re-add support for openwrt-style .ipk's.
> * There're two .ipk formats: one with ar top-level wrapping
> (essentially, .deb format, native OE format) and with tar.gz top-level
> wrap, used by OpenWRT and some tiny distros. When I did performance
> optimization work on ipkg-make-index, I just blocked support of
> tar.gz-style ipk's, as it was unclear if those are used in OE at all.
> Now support is readded, with the old code to handle them (i.e. not as
> optimal as ar-style ones).
> * This makes DISTRO=openwrt-sdk usable for producing compatible
> packages and deploy-feed for them. But there're still some issues to
> resolve before OE can be said to provide seamless support for building
> packages for OpenWRT.

OpenWRT use tar.gz type but on device it handle both types. I am using 
OpenWRT 'whiterussian' rc5 (last jffs2 one) and 'ar type' packages 
generated by OE were working for me (ipkg 0.99.149 on device).

But I do not know how situation looks in Kamikaze (OpenWRT devel tree). 
From what I see they indeed use old shell version of ipkg in SDK.

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