Philippe De Swert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050109]: > Hi Benjamin, > > On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 15:32 +0100, Henrion Benjamin wrote: > > I would like to know which package system is the best between ipkg and > > emdeb. > > Emdebian would use the normal debian package format. (With some wrappers > around apt/dpkg you can actually install them in a chroot concurrently > on your system). Also the ipkg package manager can deal with deb > packages, as the two formats are quite similar. > > However ipkg has a less robust dependency management, and does not > fetches packages as well as apt does. Also there is no support for > orphaned packages, upgrading is much harder.... in respect to apt/dpkg.
On the naming question, I don't know if the idea of having a *.emdeb instead of *.deb is appropriate. I don't know how to add the naming for embedded systems, since it is compiled against uclibc. Also, if the goal is to create a repository of emdeb packages, it should compile against a fixed version of gcc/uclibc. Which gcc/uclibc fixed version to choose? > (As far as I know of course) > > > It seems to me that there is no standard way to get the sources from an > > ipk package, no? > > There is no standard way that I know of. Most sources could probabaely > be found in the OE trees that are used by handhelds/familiar and > openzaurus. Yes, that's why maintaining *.ipk packages is nearly a headacke. -- Benjamin Henrion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://bh.udev.org <<< Push the Parliament democracy against Commission-Council Terrorism >>> <<< Promoting Abuses of the Patent System is Juridical Terrorism >>> <<< http://swpat.ffii.org >>>
