There's been a brief but heated discussion on one of our internal lists on the change from .ipk to .opk. Let me join the flame fest by 1) dragging this into this more public space, and 2) professing my ignorance:
In the discussion it was explained that the file formats .deb, .ipk, and .opk are identical, and that this was just what seems to be a very misguided attempt at name branding. (I only now realize that the "o" in "opkg" was supposed to come from "Openmoko", not "other".) However, I wonder if there are any other differences beyond the mere format. E.g., could systems that use dpkg, ipkg, or opkg actually install .deb, .ipk, or .opk packages (provided that they're built for the respective architecture), or are there other differences beyond just the package format that would cause this to fail or to cause other problems (such as putting invalid metadata into the local package database) ? If .opk is identical to .ipk for all practical purposes, then I don't think this is a good change and it may not be too late to revert it. If we look at, say, RPM-based systems, they all use .rpm and don't try to create arbitrary divisions by using distribution-specific names. I also don't know what is actually the difference between opkg and ipkg. I just thought it's somehow "better" without affecting the core functionality. Could anyone please explain ? I think I may not be the only one confused :-) Thanks, - Werner _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
