Re: Todays rant: opkg - not giving me the right choices

2008-08-17 Thread Robin Farine
On Sunday 17 August 2008, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: [...] > Anyway, I'm tired of this game now. Lets try something else: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# mv /var/lib/opkg/daily-neo1973 . > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# mv /var/lib/opkg/daily-neo1973-updates . > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# opkg info kernel [...] > Now, le

Re: Todays rant: opkg - not giving me the right choices

2008-08-17 Thread arne anka
>> opkg --help >> might be interesting to read ... > > I have done that Many times. > Are there anything specific there you are referring to? there should be smth like -force-downgrade. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org h

Re: Todays rant: opkg - not giving me the right choices

2008-08-17 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hi, On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 5:57 PM, arne anka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > opkg --help > might be interesting to read ... I have done that Many times. Are there anything specific there you are referring to? -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen ___ Openmoko

Re: Todays rant: opkg - not giving me the right choices

2008-08-17 Thread arne anka
opkg --help might be interesting to read ... ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Todays rant: opkg - not giving me the right choices

2008-08-17 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
More info. On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tried giving an absolute path or URI to opkg? Ok, I found the package in question at http://buildhost.openmoko.org/daily-feed/om-gta02/kernel-2.6.24_2.6.24+git33+88bf43840b9df0eb0a077a1394eb564be80a412

Re: Todays rant: opkg - not giving me the right choices

2008-08-17 Thread Yorick Moko
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello again, > > On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You could inspect /etc/ipkg.conf and browse with a HTTP browser to get >> absolute URIs. > > Are you referring to

Re: Todays rant: opkg - not giving me the right choices

2008-08-17 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hello again, On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could inspect /etc/ipkg.conf and browse with a HTTP browser to get > absolute URIs. Are you referring to /etc/opkg.conf? Ther is no /etc/ipkg.conf on my system, and /etc/opkg.conf contains: [EMA

Re: Todays rant: opkg - not giving me the right choices

2008-08-17 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
You could inspect /etc/ipkg.conf and browse with a HTTP browser to get absolute URIs. -- :M: ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Todays rant: opkg - not giving me the right choices

2008-08-17 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hello, On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tried giving an absolute path or URI to opkg? Well, opkg doesn't tell me what URI the packages are available from, until you try to install them. As you can see above, 'opkg info ' only tells you the sourc

Re: Todays rant: opkg - not giving me the right choices

2008-08-17 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Tried giving an absolute path or URI to opkg? -- :M: ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Todays rant: opkg - not giving me the right choices

2008-08-17 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hello, Linux and Openmoko is all about choice. This is a good thing. Why isn't there a way to tell opkg that I want a to install a specific version, name or whatever of a package? Instead of the one that opkg thinks is "latest"? If I know that opkg is installing the wrong version of a (available