[Buildroot] package management

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-05-14, Xianghua Xiao <xiaoxianghua at gmail.com> wrote:

>>> I'm curious about this. I'm using ipkg and it works fine. Opkg seems
>>> to be based on (and very similar to) ipkg. What is different about
>>> opkg that makes it difficult?
>>
>> Maybe I misunderstood Xianghua initial request. I thought he was
>> asking for Buildroot to generate ipkg/opkg packages, which Buildroot
>> isn't capable of doing at the moment. If he is asking about having
>> the opkg/ipkg-utils installed in a Buildroot system, then obviously
>> it's fairly easy.
>
> I never used ipkg/opkg on buildroot though I saw the package itself
> there, can you do 'ipkg update/remove/install' reliably?

Yes it works fine for all of the programs I've packaged.

> i think it's either fully-ipkg aware, or nothing, as using ipkg
> directly (acting like a 'make install') may break things easily
> unless it's a fully-ipkg-aware distribution.

Sorry, I don't know what that last sentence means.  I'll try again to
explain what is supported.

Buildroot does not produce .ipk files/packages.

Buildroot can build and install the ipackage utilities in the target
image.  Those ipackage utilties work fine on the target.  I use them
to install, update, and uninstall .ipk files I build outside of
buildroot.

-- 
Grant