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Revision as of 16:00, 6 July 2008



Contents

About Opkg

Opkg is a lightweight package management system based on Ipkg.

A mailing list for discussion is available here: http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/opkg-devel

Source code is available in the subversion repository: http://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/src/target/opkg/. The repository can also be viewed online.

New Features

This is a list of features that have been completed. Mostly this is a list of changes from Ipkg.

  • Use libcurl to download files
  • Send download progress updates to libopkg clients
  • Re-organize and clean up source code into sub directories
  • Verify package lists with gpg detached signature
  • Mark packages that were installed to satisfy dependencies (auto installed)
  • Additional command line option to remove "auto installed" packages
  • Support for faceted classification (similar to debtags). A "Tags" line has been added to the package information and opkg makes this available to clients, but does not process it in anyway. The command line client also does not use this features yet.


Ipkg Patches

The following ipkg patches have been applied:

  • "2-pkg-vec--Optimize-gross-inefficiency.patch" from OpenEmbedded
  • "1-pkg-parse--Optimize-inefficient-parsing.patch" from OpenEmbedded

Planned features

These are features either under development or planned for inclusion before the next release.

  • improve/cleanup libopkg api
  • locking system to prevent two simultaneous operations on the file system

Bug fixes

  • Ipkg bug - Overflowing / crashes machine - [1]
  • ipkg tries to access ro SD card - [2]

Lower priority features

  • Simple user interactions during postinstall
  • Improve command line options
  • Restructure source code and make it more robust
  • Store packages in database
  • Check available space in /tmp prior to downloading
  • Check available space in dest prior to unpacking

Possible Issues

This is a list of possible issues or known bugs.

  • http proxy works but authentication not tested yet
  • autoremove feature only inspects "depends" and not "pre-depends"

FAQ

Q. What version of Ipkg is Opkg based on?

A. It is based on the ipkg-0.99.163 tarball

Q. Why "fork" and rename Ipkg?

A. Ipkg is no longer actively maintained upstream and there are potential trademark issues with using the Ipkg name

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About Opkg

Opkg is a lightweight package management system based on Ipkg.

A mailing list for discussion is available here: http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/opkg-devel

Source code is available in the subversion repository: http://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/src/target/opkg/. The repository can also be viewed online.

New Features

This is a list of features that have been completed. Mostly this is a list of changes from Ipkg.

  • Use libcurl to download files
  • Send download progress updates to libopkg clients
  • Re-organize and clean up source code into sub directories
  • Verify package lists with gpg detached signature
  • Mark packages that were installed to satisfy dependencies (auto installed)
  • Additional command line option to remove "auto installed" packages
  • Support for faceted classification (similar to debtags). A "Tags" line has been added to the package information and opkg makes this available to clients, but does not process it in anyway. The command line client also does not use this features yet.


Ipkg Patches

The following ipkg patches have been applied:

  • "2-pkg-vec--Optimize-gross-inefficiency.patch" from OpenEmbedded
  • "1-pkg-parse--Optimize-inefficient-parsing.patch" from OpenEmbedded

Planned features

These are features either under development or planned for inclusion before the next release.

  • improve/cleanup libopkg api
  • locking system to prevent two simultaneous operations on the file system

Bug fixes

  • Ipkg bug - Overflowing / crashes machine - [1]
  • ipkg tries to access ro SD card - [2]

Lower priority features

  • Simple user interactions during postinstall
  • Improve command line options
  • Restructure source code and make it more robust
  • Store packages in database
  • Check available space in /tmp prior to downloading
  • Check available space in dest prior to unpacking

Possible Issues

This is a list of possible issues or known bugs.

  • http proxy works but authentication not tested yet
  • autoremove feature only inspects "depends" and not "pre-depends"

FAQ

Q. What version of Ipkg is Opkg based on?

A. It is based on the ipkg-0.99.163 tarball

Q. Why "fork" and rename Ipkg?

A. Ipkg is no longer actively maintained upstream and there are potential trademark issues with using the Ipkg name