[yocto] adding package management

Mark Hatle mark.hatle at windriver.com
Wed Dec 12 09:11:13 PST 2012


On 12/12/12 5:43 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 12 December 2012 11:31, Tim Coote <tim+yoctoproject.org at coote.org> wrote:
>> Am I right in thinking that yum isn't in the standard recipes?
>
> Yum, no.  Zypper is in oe-core and is used when you construct a RPM-based image.
>
> (note that Zypper is being replaced by Smart in oe-core master)

See the following for more information on the change:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded.core/29105

The one feature that Smart does not have that Zypper does (that I know people 
want) is delta-rpm support.  Otherwise it seems to be better for our uses in 
Embedded Systems.

--Mark

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