[Buildroot] adding a package

Anders Darander anders.darander at gmail.com
Tue Jun 5 08:06:00 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il> wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 09:28:55AM +0300, Kevin Wilson wrote:
>> Thanks for your quick response !
>> >If you need a package manager try
>> > something like yocto (http://www.yoctoproject.org).
>> >
>> I don't have experience with Yokto
>> Any idea: does Yokto has some known package manager mechansim (like
>> apt-get or rpm?) or is it uses some unique package manager of its own
>> ?
>
> I don't have experience with yocto either. A quick glance at
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.html
> (especially the block diagram) seems to indicate that yocto support more than
> one package manager.

Yes, Yocto (or oe-core and meta-oe) supports opkg (ipk), deb, and rpm.
Likely opkg (ipk) and rpm are the most tested and most widely used.

/Anders



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