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Title: Which feeds to use for OZ 3.5.1?
Post by: Valorum on November 10, 2004, 06:24:41 pm

I'm a little lost as to which feeds i should use for ipkg in OZ 3.5.1 on my 5500. Right now i have:

src oz http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.1/feed/ (http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.1/feed/)
src oz_upgrade http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.1/upgrades/ (http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.1/upgrades/)

I debated if i should add some of these perhaps:

src opie http://opie.handhelds.org/feed/stable/openzaurus/ (http://opie.handhelds.org/feed/stable/openzaurus/)
src zug http://www.zaurususergroup.com/feed/ (http://www.zaurususergroup.com/feed/)
src familiar http://familiar.handhelds.org/releases/v0.7.2/base/armv4l (http://familiar.handhelds.org/releases/v0.7.2/base/armv4l)

I just don't know which ones are proper to use for this version of OZ and which ones aren't. I checked out the opie site, but that isn't much help either. On this page the list a bunch of feeds:

http://opie.handhelds.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Feed (http://opie.handhelds.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Feed)

But i'll be damned if i understand which one i should use!  

Why doesn't OZ ship with a preconfigured ipkg.conf? Maybe that's something you guys can add for us newbies to get us started?  Because if you set that up, you can tell newbies to just do the "upgrade" in the package manager after flashing to get the latest stuff.

Title: Which feeds to use for OZ 3.5.1?
Post by: dansawyer on November 10, 2004, 06:42:59 pm

Excellant comments.

FWIW my 3.5.1 Z is configured with only the top 2 openzaurus feeds.

Dan

Title: Which feeds to use for OZ 3.5.1?
Post by: zenyatta on November 11, 2004, 04:38:36 am

OZ 3.5.1 is quite new and quite different from previous versions and most of the software from other feeds will probably only work with problems. In your place I would stick to the two openzaurus.org feeds plus perhaps the ZUG feed.

z.

Title: Which feeds to use for OZ 3.5.1?
Post by: Valorum on November 11, 2004, 10:19:03 am

Thanks for the feedback.

One of the problems i ran into and that sparked this question was that i tried to install something that required a package that wasn't in either of these 2 feeds. (I think it was gzlib or something like that.) So i started digging and got lost. I tried to use the other feeds, and sure enough, it caused some problems here and there. Tricky stuff, especially for a newbie like me

It'd be great if the team could add a preconfigured ipkg.conf to each release. Not sure that's 100% feasible, but it'd help people like me get started at least.

Good job on this whole OZ thing. I like it. Keep it up!

Title: Which feeds to use for OZ 3.5.1?
Post by: XorA on November 11, 2004, 11:08:35 am

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It'd be great if the team could add a preconfigured ipkg.conf to each release. Not sure that's 100% feasible, but it'd help people like me get started at least.

One of the OE gods has already done that!