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

[Paul Barker]

On 3 March 2014 09:02, Paul Barker <paul at paulbarker.me.uk> wrote:
> 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?
>

I've just submitted a patch to the oe-core mailing list myself to do this.

Cheers,

-- 
Paul Barker

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