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

[From: Koen Kooi]

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Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> 
> 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. 

ipkg resolves dependencies like apt, dpkg can't.

regards,

Koen

> 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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