[yocto] Embedded Linux Package Management

[Prasant J]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Alex J Lennon
<ajlennon at dynamicdevices.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> On 20/03/2015 09:34, Prasant J wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for package management for my embedded linux systems
> (yocto on armv7 iMX6Q)
>
>
> I'm looking for the following features:
>
> (a) Install & remove a package
> (b) Install packages and its dependencies
> (c) Install a package with conflicts, such that the conflicting
> package is force removed
> (d) A local location with packages should serve as a package source
> (e) Remote server package (http file server based)
> (f) List of my packages installed
> (g) List of my packages not installed but available on the http file server
> (h) List of my packages that have updates (new version)
> (i) To be able to manage packages for multiple architectures (eg. rpm
> can produce packages for multiple architectures using one spec file)
>
>
> The above features will be invoked by the application GUI.
> Any suggestions: which package management solution would answer all
> the above use cases?
>
>
>
> (e) I use smart + RPM. I have a remote package server setup via this in
> local.conf
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> FEED_DEPLOYDIR_BASE_URI = "http://packages.foo.bar"
>
> Then I'm rsyncing the files up to the server after a bitbake package-index.
>
> Then smart update / search / install
>
> That seems to work well in my testing.
>


Hi Alex,

Thanks for inputs!

Is smart development stopped?

When I look at their mailing list it, the last posts were in Nov 2014.
It looks like no more development for smart package manager. I would
then tend to say that it will not be a right way for me.


Regards, Pj