• Kissaki
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    25 days ago

    I had never heard of opkg. I looked it up:

    opkg: Fork of ipkg lightweight package management intended for use on embedded Linux devices;

    ipkg: A dpkg-inspired, very lightweight system targeted at storage-constrained Linux systems such as embedded devices and handheld computers. Used on HP’s webOS;

    Wikipedia has no dedicated pages for either of them. I guess they’re quite niche.

  • Lemmchen@feddit.org
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    23 days ago

    As a long time OpenWrt user I’d say this is probably a change for the better, but I never had any real problems with opkg.

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    24 days ago

    Hopefully it can actually preserve packages across updates which is incredibly annoying to have to handle manually.

    EDIT: Just found about this attended sysupgrade package which should help until when/if the new package manager fixes the issue.

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      24 days ago

      The underlying tool is getting replaced in 23. The new tool requests the new image with the packages from the build server.

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    He says it was unexpected but it’s been being talked about on the GitHub for quite some time now. It was really just a matter of when they decided to do it.