Re: looking to demo "ipkg" on an x86 system

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 08:17, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> you're right, of course, i have no "arch" lines in my ipkg.conf file,
> which leads to the next point -- where would i read that i need such
> lines, and what do they mean?

I'm afraid there is no documentation except for the old wiki stuff which
I have not updated. It would be good to start an ipkg reference
manual. I would say docbook format.

> i'm going over the ipkg wiki stuff at hh.org and have not yet seen these
> details covered. is there an ipkg reference manual somewhere? it's tough
> debugging this stuff without a complete reference or tutorial, which is
> why i'm reduced to asking fairly trivial questions here.
>
> rday
>
> p.s. as an amusing side note, once i got ipkg running on my x86 system,
> i decided to download and install the ipkg-build .ipk file. this failed,
> citing dependencies of sed, tar, gzip and perhaps something else.

The problem is that ipkg does not have access to the RPM database so it
does not know what is installed.

Jamey
Received on Wed Nov 19 2003 - 13:27:43 EST