[yocto] Embedded Linux Package Management

[Prasant J]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Friday 20 March 2015 11:10:39 Paul Eggleton wrote:
>> On Friday 20 March 2015 11:26:43 Alex J Lennon wrote:
>> > On 20/03/2015 11:15, Prasant J wrote:
>> > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Alex J Lennon
>> >
>> > I don't know. To me the question would be does it do want I need it to
>> > do as well as I need it to do it,
>> > rather than asking whether there is a lot of activity. One might take
>> > the view that if it is doing its job,
>> > a lack of activity is a sign that it's a mature piece of software that
>> > needs little further development.
>> >
>> > You'll have to make that decision yourself.
>> >
>> > My understanding is that smart is the recommended way to do things (at
>> > least it was what was
>> > recommended to me) - https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Smart

@Alex:
You are correct, it should be able to do what I need.
It did most of the things that I need.

But I'm not fine in using a package if the development has stopped.
Smart may stop development but other packages continue to develop.
It is important for me to know that the maintainer will continue to provide
compliance as other libraries are actively developed.


>>
>> FYI, here is some of the thinking that led to the decision to use smart:
>>
>> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2012-October/010384.html
>>
>> Of course that was a few years ago now - we probably ought to look at the
>> RPM landscape again (e.g. DNF) and see if any change is warranted.

@Paul:
This is a very important link for me. This posts points out that yum
will not be compatible with rpm ver 5.
This will be a problem for me as my imx6 yocto build uses rpm5. So
technically I cannot use yum.

>
> I forgot to mention, we do have some basic documentation here on
> setting up a feed if you hadn't already seen it:
>
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#using-runtime-package-management
>


Thanks for inputs. Would like to get more inputs from community.

Looks like Alex is successful and happy in using smart + rpm. I would
re-consider smart + rpm for my solution.

Anyone else using any other package management solution ?


Regards, Pj