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From: Jon Ringle <jon@ringle.org>
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] ptxd_lib_dgen.awk:
 $(STATEDIR)/*.targetinstall.post depends on $(PKGDIR)/Packages
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On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Michael Olbrich
<m.olbrich@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> 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?

I'm sure that "ptxdist make ipkg-index" will work. I just didn't know
how to invoke that rule before now :)

Jon

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