[poky] Best supported package manager?

[Michael Davis]

Cool, thanks for the info.  Just to be totally clear, when I specify say "package_ipk" what exactly does that mean for my build and resulting filesystem?  Does it mean that the entire filesystem is generated using ipk packages?  Does it mean that I will be able to use ipks in my resulting system?  Thanks again

-Mike

From: Rudolf Streif [mailto:rstreif at linuxfoundation.org]
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 1:10 PM
To: Michael Davis
Cc: poky at yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [poky] Best supported package manager?


> Which package manager (ipk, rpm, deb) is best supported currently in poky?  I am wondering which manager is the most tested and stable?

RPM is the default package manager. I would expect that it has gotten the most mileage so far because of that. All of them are tested with autobuilder. IPK is probably the next commonly used one since popular for embedded systems for its leightweight and smaller footprint design. You can have YP build for any combination of the package managers at the same time. The builds just take longer. I recommend starting with RPM and when your system boots try out the other ones if you need to.

Rudi
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