[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] ipkg vs dpkg

[From: Russell Nelson]

Instead of tossing out opinions, let's look at some numbers.

I have Debian 2.2 on a server and Familiar 6.2 on a handheld.  Since
we're talking about using either dpkg or ipkg on a jffs2 filesystem,
all space consumption is given as so: 


                packages    size      bytes/package
ipkg total                  378K
     available    939       317K      388
     installed    147        61K      415
dpkg total                10620K
     available  15272      8660K      567
     installed    301      1860K     6180

Here's how I got these numbers:

ipkg total is:
    tar cfz - /usr/lib/ipkg | wc -c
ipkg available is:
    tar cfz - /usr/lib/ipkg/lists | wc -c
ipkg packages installed is:
    ipkg status | grep ^Package: | wc -l
ipkg available packages is:
    ipkg list | wc -l

dpkg total is:
    tar cfz - /var/lib/dpkg | wc -c
dpkg available is:
    tar cfz - /var/lib/dpkg/available* | wc -c
dpkg packages installed is:
    grep '^Status: install ok installed' /var/lib/dpkg/status | wc -l
dpkg available packages is:
    grep '^Status:' /var/lib/dpkg/status | wc -l

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