-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kalle Vahlman wrote: > 2005/11/29, Matthew Allum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>"the 770 is not an embedded system" - OK :) You understand my point >>though - we could argue all week on if my digitial watch for example >>was a small computer or an embedded system. > > > And that wouldn't resolve the real issues with the device which are > the RAM shortage and less-than-optimal graphics performance wrt screen > size. > > tar cfz - /var/lib/dpkg | wc -c > > gives somewhat less than one megabyte on the SDK, and I expect it to > be about the same or less on the device (if it indeed had the dpkg > stuff there, the product image does not currently). > > So we are talking about changing a rarely used utility to save less > than one percent of the flash space? With modifications to who knows > what amount of the packages included?
I wouldn't call ipkg rarely used, Familiar, OpenZaurus, openwrt, SlugOS, pdaXrom, sharpROM and several other distros have been using it for years. > > Or is ipkg a drop-in replacement for dpkg, requiring no changes to > build environments or the packages themselves? a .ipkg should be compatible with a .deb (ar wrapped tarballs). See http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/Ipkg for details. Iirc ipkg should be able to install .debs and dpkg should be able to install .ipks. Could you specify what you mean with 'build environment' and 'packages'? > > Could I "apt-get source foo" from a Debian repo, compile the package > for ARM with an utility like dpkg-buildpackage and stuff it to the > device like I can now (from the command line, and if AI would support > real debs from it too)? you can, ipkg-buildpkg will do the grunt work for you. Systems like OpenEmbedded will make live even easier by autogenerating control files. > > -- > Kalle Vahlman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Powered by http://movial.fi > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDjFIgMkyGM64RGpERAhQBAKCM+rt1TrVXArSCnstjky8ywvtMLwCfbB/O mIIkCyXGFscpeFR0Ne1cmb0= =bUgo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
