[oe] [RFC] move to opkg

[Geoffrey Wossum]

On Tuesday 18 March 2008 03:55:01 am Koen Kooi wrote:

> Poky just switched to opkg and removed ipkg completely, which I think
> is a good thing, but here's a less drastic patch for OE.
>
> Executive summary: you still get .ipk packages, just as before, only
> your rootfs ends up with opkg.  Things like sharprom-compat and wrt54g-
> oe will continue to work just as before.

I understand that opkg is a fork of ipkg, since ipkg was unmaintained.  But 
could someone explain what, if anything, this means to me as someone 
currently building a product using OpenEmbedded for the underpinning?

TIA!
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Geoffrey