Hi Paul, Thanks a lot for your help. I'm sure that there is a good reason why that's not the way it works. I will continue then using individual packages for updates/installation.
Regards, Katu 2014-04-16 17:34 GMT+01:00 Paul Eggleton <[email protected]>: > On Wednesday 16 April 2014 17:28:45 Katu Txakur wrote: > > 2014-04-16 17:17 GMT+01:00 Paul Eggleton <[email protected] > >: > > > On Wednesday 16 April 2014 17:09:19 Katu Txakur wrote: > > > > yes, it does "inherit packagegroup" and all the packages are > installed. > > > > What I would like to have is a mypackagegroup.ipk that I can copy to > any > > > > system to install all the files, binaries.... in those recipes using > > > > "opkg install mypackage.ipk" > > > > The problem that I have is that the files, binaries... of the > recipes in > > > > RDEPENDS_${PN} are not included in the mypackagegroup.ipk. Do you > know > > > > how can I include them? > > > > > > opkg and similar package managers simply aren't designed to work like > > > that; it's expected that both devices would have access to the same > > > package feeds and therefore you would just install the packagegroup > > > package on each system in the same way. > > > > I see, but I don't want to feed the package from a repo, I just want to > > include all the files in the package. > > I'm now trying to set > > PREFERRED_PROVIDER_each-recipe = "mypackagegroup" > > hoping that it will change the location of the files from their > individual > > recipes/packages to the packagegroup. > > I've just cleaned the entire tmp folder, I will find out tomorrow if this > > worked. > > It isn't as simple as that, that just selects between providers but there > is > nothing to actually make the "mypackagegroup" recipe actually provide > anything. The files would need to actually be produced as part of the > packagegroup recipe, and then it isn't really a packagegroup anymore. > > I'm afraid our system just isn't designed to work this way. I'm sure it > could > be made to, but it would require some additional work. > > Cheers, > Paul > > -- > > Paul Eggleton > Intel Open Source Technology Centre >
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