+++ hoefle marco [2009-09-08 11:32 +0200]: > Hello, > However, until now it is always necessary to physically execute dpkg -i > on the board. Is there a way to update the NFS tree with a new emdebian > package without executing dpkg on the target?
Yes, you can install/unpakc packages into a target rootfs (see Phillipe deSwerts 'STAG' docs for details on how to do that (essentially set a load of DPKG/apt config variables to point at the approriate directories and database files). The bit you can't easily do is run the install scripts during this process. Sometimes they are for the wrong arch and mostly there is no mechanism to point them into a chroot without chrooting. The only good way to do this is with scratchbox which can handle all the necessary file and arch remapping. Fortunately for a lot of embedded cases you can simply not bother running the install scripts and things will still work. Or you can run the scripts on the board manually afterwards. This is one problem that Debian doesn't have a good solution for yet. Wookey -- Principal hats: iEndian - Balloonboard - Toby Churchill - Emdebian http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
