[Buildroot] OT: how to do upgrades with ipkg?

[James J. Dines]

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On 09/07/2010 04:41 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> First, my apologies.  This isn't directly related to buildroot, but
> I'm hoping somebody might know the answer (there doesn't seem to be an
> ipkg mailing list).
> 
> When using ipkg to manage field-installed pacakges, how do you upgrade
> a package?  For example, let's say I've got foobar version 0.1
> installed.  Now I have foobar_0.2_arm.ipk at hand on the target.  How
> do I upgrade?
> 
> The "ipkg upgrade" command doesn't seem relevent -- it won't accept a
> path to an .ipk file.  There are no "feeds" in my system.  All packages
> are explicitly uploaded to the target and installed.
> 
> Do you just do this?
> 
>   ipkg remove foobar
>   ipkg install foobar_0.2_arm.ipk
> 

On a related note, wouldn't it make more sense to migrate to opkg at
this point?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opkg

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