[yocto] [PATCH] create dpkg-deb compatible ipks/opks again

[Paul Barker]

On 1 March 2014 14:29, Paul Barker <paul at paulbarker.me.uk> wrote:
> On 25 February 2014 20:26, Thilo Cestonaro <thilo at cestona.ro> wrote:
>> With a change from last august in dpkg-deb, the packages generated by opkg-build will not be accepted by dpkg-deb anymore.
>> The change disallows that the data.tar.gz is packed into the ipk/opk before the control.tar.gz.
>> For details have a look here:
>> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=547dca4c3ff23df5dfa554f1943b371cd7056ee4
>>
>> For details which order is correct, see "man 5 deb", but in short it is:
>> debian-binary, control.tar.gz and data.tar.gz
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thilo Cestonaro <thilo at cestona.ro>
>
> I've slightly modified the subject line to "opkg-build: create
> dpkg-deb compatible ipks/opks again" so that we can see in the
> shortlog that this relates to opkg-build.
>

Tested and merged!

The recipe in openembedded-core
(meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_git.bb) now needs
updating to reference the new commit ID. Would you like to create a
patch for that or shall I do it?

Thanks,

-- 
Paul Barker

Email: paul at paulbarker.me.uk
http://www.paulbarker.me.uk