For future reference: "ar -x some_package.ipk" did the trick. Thank you Gunnar!
Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes wrote: > .ipk are like debian (or indeed ubuntu) packages, i.e. they are > initially packaged with ar, not tar. Unpacking will give you a meta-data > file plus control.tar.gz. and data.tar.gz, which you can untar as usual. > data.tar.gz is meants to be untarred in /, i.e. it contains all folders > up from usr, var, etc. > > - Gunnar > > Kasper Johansen wrote: > >> Hi list. >> >> Is it possible to extract a IPK-package (some_package.ipk)? I do not >> want to install anything - just inspect the package on my Ubuntu-machine. >> >> I have been able to extract some packages by using "tar -zxvf" after >> renaming the extension to tar.gz - though I cant with all packages (and >> I dont know why). >> >> Can anyone point in the direction on how to do so? >> -- Med venlig hilsen Kasper Johansen Udviklingskonsulent og software engineer KNJ IT-solutions - Engvej 3 - DK-4970 Rødby Mail : kaspe...@gmail.com Telefon : +45 31593812 Telefon : +45 26173812 _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community