Category:Ipkg
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== What is that? == | == What is that? == | ||
| - | + | iPKG - [http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/Ipkg The Itsy Package Management System] is the package management system used in [[OpenLink]] firmware, a very lightweight package management system. It was designed for Linux installations with severe storage limitations such as handheld computers. iPKG is more than just an embedded Linux flash image builder, (although it does that fairly well). It also allows for dynamic installation/removal of packages on a running system. | |
| - | + | iPKG is itsy in several ways: | |
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| + | *The control programs themselves are small | ||
| + | *The installed meta-data tries to be only what is absolutely essential | ||
| + | *The available packages are small. (The idea is that the package tree should be as fine-grain as possible. | ||
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| + | This is something similar to other Package Management Systems in big distributions like debian or gentoo (Portage) where you can easily install additional software by an easy | ||
apt-get install <software> | apt-get install <software> | ||
in Debian or | in Debian or | ||
emerge <software> | emerge <software> | ||
In Gentoo | In Gentoo | ||
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== Our Goal == | == Our Goal == | ||
We want to create and maintain in fact several IPKG-Feeds for all Linkstations that run OpenLink. | We want to create and maintain in fact several IPKG-Feeds for all Linkstations that run OpenLink. | ||
Revision as of 05:31, 14 August 2006
This article Based on work by moomoo, nix, frontalot, and timtimred.
Originally by timtimred.
at Linkstationwiki.org
What is that?
iPKG - The Itsy Package Management System is the package management system used in OpenLink firmware, a very lightweight package management system. It was designed for Linux installations with severe storage limitations such as handheld computers. iPKG is more than just an embedded Linux flash image builder, (although it does that fairly well). It also allows for dynamic installation/removal of packages on a running system.
iPKG is itsy in several ways:
- The control programs themselves are small
- The installed meta-data tries to be only what is absolutely essential
- The available packages are small. (The idea is that the package tree should be as fine-grain as possible.
This is something similar to other Package Management Systems in big distributions like debian or gentoo (Portage) where you can easily install additional software by an easy
apt-get install <software>
in Debian or
emerge <software>
In Gentoo
Our Goal
We want to create and maintain in fact several IPKG-Feeds for all Linkstations that run OpenLink.
After setting everything up we can easily provide access to some package maintainers....they will get ftp-access to http://ipkg.linkstationwiki.net/
Pages in category "Ipkg"
The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
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