[BusyBox] ipkg as busybox applet

[Erik Andersen]

On Fri Jul 15, 2005 at 09:27:05PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 15 July 2005 09:21 pm, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Friday 15 July 2005 18:39, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > On Friday 15 July 2005 06:59 pm, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote:
> > > > I just want to ask if anybody ever tried to integrate the itsy
> > > > package manager¹ (ipkg) as a buybox applet?
> > >
> > > if they have i'm pretty sure it's never been mentioned here
> >
> > We've got rpm and dpkg in there (although dpkg was bit-rotting a bit last I
> > heard because Glenn lost interest).  I vaguely remember hearing good things
> > about ipkg, although I've never used it.  If somebody wanted to post a
> > patch here as a 1.1 candidate, I'd review it.
> 
> yeah, i'd be for including ipkg too assuming we have someone who would back it 
> up on the OE side of things ...

ipkg is used for more then just OE.  For example openwrt
(uClibc buildroot2 derivitive build system targeting the
Linksys wrt54g) uses ipkg packages, as no doubt do many
other projects.

 -Erik

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