iPKG
iPKG (acronym for Itsy Package Management System , English for "tiny package management system") is a discontinued, free software (under GPL ) for package management . The format was designed as a package manager for computers with few resources and is sometimes used. a. used by Openmoko , Zaurus and OpenWrt . During the development, special emphasis was placed on the following points:
- The control programs themselves are very small.
- The installed metadata is limited to the most important things.
- The available packages are as small as possible. The package - tree should be very finely granulated.
Packages in this format have the extension .ipk . This format is derived from the Debian packaging system . Therefore it is relatively easy to convert existing Debian packages into iPKG format, so packages usually do not have to be created from scratch. Starting with version 0.99, iPKG supports Debian packages directly.
iPKG has not been further developed since 2013. With opkg , however, there is a fork that is actively being further developed and is used, for example, in the router software OpenWrt .
Web links
- Description of iPKG ( Memento from 23 August 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
credentials
- ^ Carl Worth, Jamey Hicks: ipkg - the Itsy Package Management System. In: Handhelds.org - Open source for handheld devices. June 2, 2006, archived from the original on August 23, 2010 ; accessed on January 14, 2016 .
- ↑ OpenMokoWiki: Opkg ( memento of the original from October 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ OpenWrt Wiki: OPKG Package Manager (English)
