[yocto] Offline use of opkg

[Burton, Ross]

(1) is basically exactly what images do: they depend on do_deploy of
all the packages that goes into them.  The pkgdata tree in tmp/ will
tell you (2), (3) is just shell operations, and (4) is trivial.

Ross

On 9 April 2018 at 16:31, Sebastian Rohde
<sebastian.rohde at tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> in my setup opkg is used as the package manager and I use it to install /
> uninstall several software alternatives. I want this to work on deployed
> devices in an offline fashion, i.e. I want to do "opkg install <sompackage>"
> without internet access. <somepackage> might or might not be installed in
> the actual rootfs in the original image.
>
> I could really use some hints how this could be achieved without running
> into a dead end. My current idea is to deploy the ipks somehow into the
> rootfs und point opkg to the "local repository":
>
> 1. Make some kind of meta-recipe with a dependency of the do_install task on
> <somepackage>'s do_write_ipk task
> 2. Find somehow the filenames of all ipks generated by a selection of
> recipes (the ones creating <somepackage>)
> 3. Install them to the rootfs, generate Packages.gz
> 4. Point opkg to this local repository
>
> For steps 1 and 2, I am not sure whether that is possible with a reasonable
> effort and I would be very thankful for any guidance.
>
> Regards
>
> Sebastian
>
>
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