[Buildroot] dpkg and apt for buildroot?

Yegor Yefremov yegorslists at googlemail.com
Tue Apr 14 21:09:17 UTC 2015


Dear Mark,

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Mark Mason
<mason+buildroot at postdiluvian.org> wrote:
> Has anyone already done the footwork to add dpkg and apt (at least a
> secure apt-get, I'm not sure what other dependancies there are)?
>
> I ran across some mail from July 2013 with patches for dpkg, which
> were very close to working, but I didn't see any for apt.  I'm kind of
> surprised that apt and friends aren't an option - am I about to run
> into something unexpectedly complicated, or is complex package
> management like apt/dpkg provides just generally outside of
> buildroot's scope?
>
> While I'm at it, almost all of the traffic on this list is related to
> development of buildroot rather than development with buildroot.  Is
> there a better place for questions (after the documentation and web
> searches have not provided answers), or is this it?

Have you read this section?
http://nightly.buildroot.org/manual.html#faq-no-binary-packages

Yegor


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