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

[From: Kalle Vahlman]

2005/11/29, Matthew Allum <mallum at gmail.com>:
> "the 770 is not an embedded system" - OK :) You understand my point
> though - we could argue all week on if my digitial watch for example
> was a small computer or an embedded system.

And that wouldn't resolve the real issues with the device which are
the RAM shortage and less-than-optimal graphics performance wrt screen
size.

  tar cfz - /var/lib/dpkg | wc -c

gives somewhat less than one megabyte on the SDK, and I expect it to
be about the same or less on the device (if it indeed had the dpkg
stuff there, the product image does not currently).

So we are talking about changing a rarely used utility to save less
than one percent of the flash space? With modifications to who knows
what amount of the packages included?

Or is ipkg a drop-in replacement for dpkg, requiring no changes to
build environments or the packages themselves?

Could I "apt-get source foo" from a Debian repo, compile the package
for ARM with an utility like dpkg-buildpackage and stuff it to the
device like I can now (from the command line, and if AI would support
real debs from it too)?

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Kalle Vahlman, zuh at iki.fi
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