ipkg questions

Devin Cook writes:
> I just got familiar 0.4 working on two iPaq and I am very impressed by the
> progress.

Thanks.

> First a note. I could not find loadmeter or apm in any package.

Hmmm... on my iPAQ I see:

        polka# which apm
        /usr/bin/apm
        polka# ipkg search `which apm`
        apmd: /usr/bin/apm

        polka# which loadmeter
        /usr/X11R6/bin/loadmeter
        polka# ipkg search `which loadmeter`
        loadmeter: /usr/X11R6/bin/loadmeter

So you should be able to "ipkg install apmd" and "ipkg install
loadmeter" in order to get these. If you install
task-familiar-complete then you should also have these packages:

        polka# ipkg info task-familiar-complete Depends
        Depends: apmd, checkers, cpu-scale-2.4.3-rmk2-np1, dosfstools, fscrib, h3600-utils, libglade0, libpopt0, libxaw6, libxml1, libxmltok1, loadmeter, ncurses-base, netcat, ntpdate, pcmcia-modules-2.4.3-rmk2-np1, procps, ppp, pump, pyditor, qiv, rsync, ssh, sysset, xvkbd, task-mp3-player, task-games, task-wireless, task-x

> My question is on version control of packages. How can I easily tell if a
> newer version of a package is available?

The "ipkg status" command gives the status of currently installed
packages while "ipkg info" gives info on available packages. So, for
example, I could do:

        polka# ipkg status bash Version
        Version: 2.03-6

        polka# ipkg info bash Version
        Version: 2.03-6

and see that bash is up to date.

Also, "ipkg upgrade", will upgrade all packages that have newer
versions available. Of course, that is a little more than you
requested.

-Carl
Received on Wed May 16 07:53:22 2001