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

[From: Tomas Frydrych]

Kalle Vahlman wrote:
> Build environment as in the Maemo and packages as in the existing
> dbus/ dir contents (bad wording, sorry). If you need to port all of
> Maemo to a new pkg management just to use ipkg, well...

> Granted, you need to recreate the packages for AI currently too so
> perhaps it's not an issue.

In fact, there is very little involved in making a deb package work with 
the AI -- if your app is well designed, you basically just need to pass 
--prefix=/var/lib/install/wherever_you_want_it to configure, and make 
sure to replace any standard system dependencies with the 'maemo' 
dependency; there are useful scripts in ApplicationCatalog to help with 
this.

So far in this discussion nobody has been able to demonstrate any 
genuine advantage to using ipkg over dpkg on the 770. More 
significantly, the dpgk is already on the system and maintains a 
database of installed applications. It really escapes me what the issue 
here is, other than Nokia wanting to keep the system (under /) 
completely separate from the applications installed by the AI (under 
/var/lib/install) -- unless Nokia changes this policy, there is not much 
to be discussed; your packages need work with the AI.

Tomas

		
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