[yocto] How to get opkg in rootfilesystem

[Gary Thomas]

On 2012-01-26 09:36, Brian Hutchinson 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"
>
> 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?

Because you asked to build an absolutely minimal root file system.
In this case, it's expected that you don't want to have opkg available.
If you still want this very minimal system *and* opkg, just add the
package management as previously instructed.
   EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES += "package_management"

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