Hi Benjamin, On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 15:32 +0100, Henrion Benjamin wrote: > I would like to know which package system is the best between ipkg and > emdeb.
Emdebian would use the normal debian package format. (With some wrappers around apt/dpkg you can actually install them in a chroot concurrently on your system). Also the ipkg package manager can deal with deb packages, as the two formats are quite similar. However ipkg has a less robust dependency management, and does not fetches packages as well as apt does. Also there is no support for orphaned packages, upgrading is much harder.... in respect to apt/dpkg. (As far as I know of course) > It seems to me that there is no standard way to get the sources from an > ipk package, no? There is no standard way that I know of. Most sources could probabaely be found in the OE trees that are used by handhelds/familiar and openzaurus. | Philippe De Swert | | Stag developer http://stag.mind.be/ | Emdebian developer: http://www.emdebian.org | | Please do not send me documents in a closed format. (*.doc,*.xls,*.ppt) | Use the open alternatives. (*.pdf,*.ps,*.html,*.txt) | Why? http://pallieter.is-a-geek.org:7832/~johan/word/english/
