howto: making ipk/opk

[Aapo Rantalainen]

A) There are many broken packages on opkg.org. They can be downloaded
and installed and they work. But adding opkg.org repository and
installing packages from repository cause Segmentation Faults and Not
found errors (opkg error -2).

B) People has made cool little scripts and python-things, but they
can't release them because packaging is so mysterious.


I want share to you one simple way to make package.
Read full text:
http://cc.oulu.fi/~rantalai/freerunner/packaging/

briefly:
Make directory and file-structure under it.
Put things in CONTROL/control
Use ipkg-buildpackage-script (v 1.1 2001/07/26) by Oliver Kurth


-Aapo Rantalainen

P.S. If you know some other easy way to make ipk/opk please share it with us.