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« on: May 11, 2005, 01:17:20 am »
I have the standard ipkg with my Sharp ROM (Watapon) and also install ipkg-new.
Downloaded some IPKs but it just does not seem to work!

Any suggestions?

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« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2005, 02:39:58 am »
what ipk's are you having trouble with?
If it does not give me too much trouble I will be happy to repack it and add it to the watapon feed.

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« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2005, 02:59:00 am »
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what ipk's are you having trouble with?
If it does not give me too much trouble I will be happy to repack it and add it to the watapon feed.

-dreadlocks
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Hi Dreadlocks,

I have not tested it if it will work (compatibility) with Sharp ROMs. But I found a huge and updated feed from here

[a href=\"http://oz.hentges.net/mirror/oz3.5.3/feed]http://oz.hentges.net/mirror/oz3.5.3/feed[/url]

If it does, let me know how we can work together to repack them and  update your feed (to reduce your load). Thanks for putting the effort!

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« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2005, 03:04:28 am »
using OZ packages on SharpROM... maybe some of them will work - but only some.. If you really want to have some packages from OpenEmbedded on so old system then consider using OE to build them - it is possible.

OZ use ipkg 0.99.148 - I dont know which version will also read those packages (which == how old)
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« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2005, 04:04:03 am »
ya, OZ progs are not nessicarly compatible with watapon, there package format specifically is not compatible.. if that the only problem with the package its trivial to repack it to a sharp compatable ipk (as I have already done with many packages in my feed)

I am willing to work on packages people NEED and add them to my feed, if you have any specific needs for software from the OZ feed I will try to repack it.. if a repack dosent work then it will need to be recompiled specifically for watapon, which I am currently not taking requests for as that queue is already full..

it would be trivial for me to create a script to repack the entire OZ feed into sharp compatable IPK's but this would take up too much space/bandwidth and be chock full of broken software.. Im not porting the entire OZ feed, that would be too much to maintain..
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« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2005, 04:38:02 am »
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ya, OZ progs are not nessicarly compatible with watapon, there package format specifically is not compatible.. if that the only problem with the package its trivial to repack it to a sharp compatable ipk (as I have already done with many packages in my feed)

I am willing to work on packages people NEED and add them to my feed, if you have any specific needs for software from the OZ feed I will try to repack it.. if a repack dosent work then it will need to be recompiled specifically for watapon, which I am currently not taking requests for as that queue is already full..

it would be trivial for me to create a script to repack the entire OZ feed into sharp compatable IPK's but this would take up too much space/bandwidth and be chock full of broken software.. Im not porting the entire OZ feed, that would be too much to maintain..
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Ok ... could you tell me how to repack them .. so I can do it for my own use    

Cross-compiling is difficult!  I hope apps like stunnel 4.x works!  

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« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2005, 04:45:06 am »
Cross compiling isn't difficult, when you use OpenEmbedded - this is exactly what we did it for. Please don't just repack - this may be an easy solution, but it's not very clever and hardly any packages will work that way. Better join the OpenEmbedded team and improve package compatibility.

Besides, I already added a SharpROM compat mode for OE. Guess how I am building my SharpROM compatible Python for Arm Linux distribution?
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« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2005, 04:54:04 am »
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Cross compiling isn't difficult, when you use OpenEmbedded - this is exactly what we did it for. Please don't just repack - this may be an easy solution, but it's not very clever and hardly any packages will work that way. Better join the OpenEmbedded team and improve package compatibility.

Besides, I already added a SharpROM compat mode for OE. Guess how I am building my SharpROM compatible Python for Arm Linux distribution?
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Consider me a newbie  
Its just that I now have some time off my work ... hee hee
Is OpenEmbedded a compiling tool or a platform of some sort?

Is there some material that I can get started on ...  cos I have no idea abt wat it means abt the "SharpROM compat mode for OE"   ... pardon me!
I tried GPE 3.5.2 .. like it ... but its way too buggy for me.

I am currently taking the easyway out. Using zDemoLinux!

I dont mind learning if its not too difficult ... as I want to compile some of the security apps to play with

Mickey ... Thanks!
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« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2005, 05:28:11 am »
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Is OpenEmbedded a compiling tool or a platform of some sort?

A compiling tool:

http://openembedded.org/ read the GettingStarted page to get you started.

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I tried GPE 3.5.2 .. like it ... but its way too buggy for me.

Try the 3.5.3 releases, there have been updates.


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