On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:02:21PM -0400, Jon Ringle wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Michael Olbrich > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Please elaborate why this is necessary. > > Doing this makes it possible for a developer to point opkg.conf on the > target to a URL that resolves to platform/packages/. A developer that > is working on a single package can then just do ptxdist targetinstall > foo and on the target: > opkg update > opkg remove foo > opkg install foo > > Doing ptxdist images and having the ipkg-repository updated takes too > long when all one is interested is the update of a single .ipkg file
I see what you mean. However I'm pretty sure, that with this patch if you run "ptxdist images" in a clean BSP you'll get a broken Packages file because it's created too early. It running "ptxdist targetinstall foo && ptxdist make ipkg-index" not good enough? Michael -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | -- ptxdist mailing list [email protected]
