https://raymii.org/s/tags/ipk.xml RSS feed for tag ipk on Raymii.org https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Building_IPK_packages_by_hand.html?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=raymii&utm_campaign=tagrss https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Building_IPK_packages_by_hand.html .ipk packages are used by a variety of embedded linux systems, like routers running OpenWRT and appliances running on OpenEmbedded (Yocto). The opkg command installs these packages and OpenEmbedded comes with a set of tools to build .ipk packages. Recently I had to create ipk packages in a scripted fashion for a few hundred systems, all unique per system. The .ipk packages includes a few software changes for debugging, a systemd service and one precompiled binary. The yocto build tools were not available on the machine where these packages would be made so I had to figure out how to make them by hand, which means, automatically. The packages are actually just compressed files containing a few control files and the data to be extracted on the filesystem. This article will walk you through the steps of creating these packages by hand. Fri, 05 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT Fri, 05 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT