[oe] [RFC] move to opkg

[Koen Kooi]

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Richard Purdie schreef:
| On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 15:32 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
|> Geoffrey Wossum schreef:
|> | 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?
|>
|> It means that after this gets applied you login to your product:
|>
|> ssh user at mytarget
|> $ su -
|> Password:
|> # ipkg update
|> sh: ipkg: : command not found
|> # opkg update
|> <output of opkg downloading stuff from feeds>
|>
|> So from a device user POV you need to type 'opkg' instead of 'ipkg'.
|> ~From a developer POV you gain PGP signed packages.
|
| That isn't the full story since the config files moved
| from /usr/lib/ipkg to /usr/lib/opkg and distro maintainers need to be
| wary of the transition. I think Angstrom has something to help with this
| but I'm not sure?

There is opkg-ipkg-compat.bb and angstrom-feed-configs.bb to help with a
dual system, and opkg-r10.patch moves angstrom over to opkg completely.

| While I think about this, would now be a good time to move the config
| files to /var instead of /usr?

I have no strong opinion on that.

regards,

Koen

| Poky can't do that yet since we don't have the var changes in OE but I
| think most of /var in OE is persistent now?
|
| Cheers,
|
| Richard

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