[BusyBox] the ideal packaging solution? (rpm or dpkg?)

[Bruno Randolf]

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for a small packaging system i can recommend ipkg from the familiar project. 
it is a smaller replacement for dpkg and apt-get and works quite fine for me.

http://www.handhelds.org/z/wiki/iPKG

source code is at:
http://cvs.handhelds.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/familiar/dist/ipkg/C/

bruno

On Wednesday 12 November 2003 14:49, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   since i started the thread on whining about how BB's "rpm" command
> couldn't install an apache rpm on a PPC system, i have a more general
> question (again, this is from a newbie so consider the source).
>
>   i have a base system up and running on a PPC system (embedded
> system based on a download from timesys.com).  one of the requirements
> is to be able to use a simple packaging tool to install/upgrade/remove
> packages, a la rpm (which i know) or perhaps dpkg (which i don't know
> but am willing to learn).
>
>   what's the consensus for packaging systems?  should i use BB's
> internal rpm or dpkg, or download separate utilities.  i notice that
> BB's rpm command doesn't support things like upgrade or remove,
> so it's of limited use to me.
>
>   any other options i should look at?  thanks for any pointers.
>
> rday
>
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