From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paulius Zaleckas Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:06:19 +0300 Subject: [Buildroot] Anyone working on install-able packages (ipkg) In-Reply-To: <20100417023037.1bd96a69@surf> References: <4BC61E50.4000902@gmail.com> <20100415164504.11822b4a@surf> <20100417023037.1bd96a69@surf> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 3:30 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:45:04 +0200 > Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > > Paulius, do you have an idea on how you'd like to handle ipkg > generation ? I have questions like : > > ?* How do you handle dependencies ? As of today, the dependencies in > ? Buildroot are expressed in terms of *source* dependencies, not > ? *binary* dependencies. Yes, that is problem... but source dependencies are quite close to binary ones. Bigger problem is host dependencies and here we may need to split dependencies. > ?* What do you put in the package ? The files usually installed in > ? $(TARGET_DIR) ? How do we modify the package infrastructure so that > ? the package installs its files to another location ? Yes, files usually installed into TARGET_DIR would be installed into some temp dir and then packaged with ipkg. I have no idea how to modify infrastructure yet.