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From: Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] ptxd_lib_dgen.awk: $(STATEDIR)/*.targetinstall.post depends on $(PKGDIR)/Packages
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:05:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111027170519.GJ30634@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMwGMjwSrn-tTpsLxtXoXqzZMrq76X4Y2_S9Why0HW+68i9rPw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:02:21PM -0400, Jon Ringle wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Michael Olbrich
> <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > Please elaborate why this is necessary.
> 
> Doing this makes it possible for a developer to point opkg.conf on the
> target to a URL that resolves to platform/packages/. A developer that
> is working on a single package can then just do ptxdist targetinstall
> foo and on the target:
> opkg update
> opkg remove foo
> opkg install foo
> 
> Doing ptxdist images and having the ipkg-repository updated takes too
> long when all one is interested is the update of a single .ipkg file

I see what you mean. However I'm pretty sure, that with this patch if you
run "ptxdist images" in a clean BSP you'll get a broken Packages file
because it's created too early.
It running "ptxdist targetinstall foo && ptxdist make ipkg-index" not good
enough?

Michael

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-27 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-27 13:42 Jon Ringle
2011-10-27 15:12 ` Michael Olbrich
2011-10-27 16:02   ` Jon Ringle
2011-10-27 17:05     ` Michael Olbrich [this message]
2011-10-27 17:21       ` Jon Ringle

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