This sounds interesting (like I said, I use the command line ipkg). I think I'm gonna give this a shot.
But two questions (sort of):
1. In another thread someone mentioned the last CVS version of the package manager installs package deps to RAM and not the location of the initial package being installed. Does the one in upgrades fix this?
Not that I am aware of, the problem is/was dependent packages were not being linked at all. This is fixed in the upgraded version.
2. What on earth is a compressed feed? (Is it a .gz version of an entire feed directory? Cuz' that would make downloading a whole feed WAY easier than what I'm doing using a dir grabber to grab all the files...) And if it is this, where do I get it?
An ipkg feed normally uses a file, named Packages which is a plain text file containing the information about each package in that feed. A compressed feed is one where this file is compressed (saving download time when doing an 'ipkg update'). Once this file is downloaded to your device, it is saved in uncompressed form, so does not save any ROM space over a regular feed.
