On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Michael Olbrich <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
I'm sure that "ptxdist make ipkg-index" will work. I just didn't know how to invoke that rule before now :) Jon -- ptxdist mailing list [email protected]
