Re: [OE-core] is there any reason to use .ipk packaging if devs are using ubuntu?

2024-03-23 Thread Khem Raj
On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 10:34 AM Robert P. J. Day 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

Re: [OE-core] is there any reason to use .ipk packaging if devs are using ubuntu?

2024-03-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 23 Mar 2024, Alexander Kanavin wrote: > On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 at 18:34, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > 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

Re: [OE-core] is there any reason to use .ipk packaging if devs are using ubuntu?

2024-03-23 Thread Alexander Kanavin
On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 at 18:34, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 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

Re: [OE-core] is there any reason to use .ipk packaging if devs are using ubuntu?

2024-03-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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,

Re: [OE-core] is there any reason to use .ipk packaging if devs are using ubuntu?

2024-03-23 Thread Alexander Kanavin
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

[OE-core] is there any reason to use .ipk packaging if devs are using ubuntu?

2024-03-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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