On 20 Jun 2002 at 12:07, Paul Fox wrote:
> the last step in building opie (at the wiki SourceCode page) is
> to run mkipks, which results in a whole slew of .ipk files. i
> presume these are installer files of some sort, probably useful
> with ipkg?
Right.
> not being a debian, or zaurus, or anything but a straight-laced redhat
> and rpm user, i don't know much if anything about ipkg or ipk files.
See:
http://www.handhelds.org/z/wiki/iPKG
> is this a handheld-specific thing? is it "required" to use this
> format in order to keep an opie installation happy? my application is
> to put opie on top of linux on my tuxscreen. (i'm currently running
> some version of the tux buildroot-tux kernel and fs on my boot flash,
> but it pivot-roots to an untar of a familiar distribution on a pcmcia
> card, which i can load up via a cardslot on my desktop machine.) since
> this isn't a typical pda setup, i have a lot more flexibilty in terms
> of how stuff gets on and off my filesystems.
You can make other PDA users happy by providing it as an *.ipk.
But no you don't have to.
(I also didn't know anything about dpkg and ipkg before I started with Linux on my
Psion [ http://www.psilinux.org ] But I learnt a lot more of Linux's innards than I
did by just installing and running SuSE for some years now)
Received on Thu Jun 20 18:26:44 2002
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