Re: [ptxdist] Building packages but not including them in the the resulting firmware image

[Mircea Ciocan <m.ciocan@ppc-ag.de>]

It's lame to reply to your messages, but as always, right after posting 
a question, the answer pops up and it's embarrassingly obvious.

Kindly please disregard and sorry for the noise.


Best regards,

Mircea C.


On 14.02.20 18:33, Mircea Ciocan wrote:
> Hello everybody, I'm trying to implement the following solution:
>
> I have a base firmware image configuration and a number of optional 
> packages, for some later choices of the customers.
>
> I don't want to have the optional packages installed in the base 
> firmware image at all, no matter the choices, but have them as 
> installable packages in separate IPKs for later use.
>
> So far, playing with the, rather sparse documented, feature of 
> _collections_, I was only able to build different monolithic firmware 
> versions, when I was marking the optional packages with "m" and with 
> "y" in the collection file.
>
> The separate IPKs are build, but they're also installed in the fw 
> image, I didn't find a way to build them as packages and exclude form 
> installing in the firmware image.
>
> Is there currently a way to that during a single run, to build the 
> base firmware and alongside of it, separate IPKs to be installed later 
> with OPKG ?
>
> So far right, now I have to do two runs, one with collections and one 
> without and discard the "fat" resulting image, which is rather 
> cumbersome.
>
>
>  Best regards,
>
>  Mircea C.
>
>
>
>
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