On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 10:34 AM Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: > > On Sat, 23 Mar 2024, Alexander Kanavin wrote: > > > 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. > > all of this being accurate, the one advantage i can see is that, if > developers are familiar with deb package management on their ubuntu > dev systems, then they would be familiar with having package > management on their target systems (provided, as you say, they > understand that they should work only with YP-generated packages). >
while ipk/deb/rpm are well supported in OE, rpm is defaults for poky reference distribution and ipk is default for nodistro if you were to use just oe-core, on yocto autobuilders, defaults poky configurations are tested extensively, so you might find a bit of better help if something goes wrong with rpm and its reproducible on AB or indirectly you may build upon the testing that's happening on AB if you used rpm, having said that YP AB is also starting to test ipk backend and we did figure out a nasty lock/race condition in opkg, which has always been there so such issues would be less although not down to zero for you if you used more tested profiles. downside is as Alex mentioned, construing yocto rpms/debs to be valid for other hosts using same packaging backends, that's going to be a constant battle to keep your team to be taught as new folks come on board etc. If your workflows do involve package managers, then opkg is definitely lightweight and easier setup for dev work. > rday > > >
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