Adding ipkg to Busybox?

[Florian Fainelli]

On Friday 08 April 2011 15:31:29 Gilles wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 15:21:03 +0200, Stefan Seyfried
> 
> <stefan.seyfried at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >Nowadays opkg, the successor of ipkg is the tool of choice AFAIK. Works
> >well for me.
> >http://code.google.com/p/opkg/
> 
> Thanks for the tip. I found the source code for ipkg below:
> 
> http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/
> 
> I'd rather use ipkg so I can install existing packages, but I'll try
> opkg in case I fail cross-compiling/using ipkg.

opkg is fully compatible with the ipkg format, opkg should be easier to cross-
compile actually.

At some point in the OpenWrt subversion repository we used to make ipkg use 
libbb, it even has been a true busybox applet at some point, but then we 
switched to opkg.
--
Florian