[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] The future of the Application installer

[From: Philippe De Swert]

Hi,

> > > I am not sure, but isn't ipkg smaller than dpkg-apt, doing same
> > > things(more or less)?
> >
> > Does ipkg do *any* kind of conflict resolving, or even just checking
> > whether there are conflicts?
> 
> Not sure, but at least it works like apt comand. Give it a try.

It does support some dependency tracking and last time I looked it also did
some conflict resolving. However I do not know how reliable this is. In any
case ipkg is not so mature as dpkg and prone to break your system, especially
when doing an ipkg upgrade. It can also handle debs and post-inst/post-rm
scripts, I however think that the more advanced wizardry of dpkg is absent.

Something ipkg definitely does not support is orphaned packages, which might
be useful on small systems. However the "orphaining" case does not happen
often AFAIK

some info I could dig up can be found on the handhelds.org wiki :
http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/Ipkg

it also mentions udpkg which is used for udebs and might be of some use also.

Cheers,

Philippe
 
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