[yocto] How to get opkg in rootfilesystem

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Brian Hutchinson <b.hutchman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Update,
>
> I'm still not doing something right.  I did a clean rebuild of
> core-image-base and a tar jtvf core-image-base-beagleboard.tar.bz2
> reveals opkg stuff in /var/lib/opkg only.  No opkg bin.
>
> I guess I'm still in shock over this.  I mean why should I have to do
> anything other than:
> PACKAGE_CLASSES ?= "package_ipk"

this means thats what format you want for package to be spitted out.
weather you want online (on device) package management is a different story

>
> I mean, if I specify I want package_ipk in the "Package Management
> configuration" section, doesn't logic follow that the image would be
> created with opkg and some sample opkg.conf files?  What use is it to
> generate all those .ipk's for the repository the build does without
> opkg being there?