Packaging format of the host distribution and packaging format used by yocto have no relation even if there is package management on real targets. Why is there an assumption that matching them is going to help something?
If anything, making them match might prompt misguided attempts to install Ubuntu packages in yocto systems and frustration at not being able to make it work. Alex On Sat 23. Mar 2024 at 18.04, Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]> wrote: > > yet another sophomoric question but i have inherited (and am > babysitting) a fairly extensive OE/YP build system that, for the most > part, works but i noticed early on that it selects ipk for the package > format. > > now, given that there is no package management installed in the > images, i guess it really makes no difference what the package format > is, but it just seems unnatural to use ipk given that the > corp-approved linux development system is ubuntu. > > is there any compelling argument for this? i suspect i could change > the packaging format and the developers would not even notice. > > rday > > > >
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