[Buildroot] New Package: Entware

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Mon Apr 15 17:41:41 UTC 2019



On 15/04/2019 19:18, Oscar Gomez Fuente wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 at 21:55, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
>>
>>
>>  I don't get it. Entware is a (kind of) distro that uses opkg. It's like saying
>> apt is old-fashioned and Ubuntu is cool... Entware is essentially an opkg.conf file.
>>
> 
> I'm sorry I meant to say Optware instead fo opkg. But You are right, I
> misunderstood the meaning of Entware when I was reading the wiki on
> github:
> 
> https://github.com/Entware/Entware/wiki
> 
> Besides, It doesn't make sense to create a new package for Entware If
> we have the package opkg.

 Actually, you can entware as-is on a busybox installation, as long as /opt is
writeable. Entware will install opkg and libc in /opt and will handle everything
from there.

 Regards,
 Arnout



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