edirepo

A repository to use with opkg on the edison.

To install packages on your edison, edit /etc/opkg/base-feeds.conf and add the line

src/gz edirepo https://github.com/sboettcher/edirepo/raw/master

then run opkg update.

Creating new packages

1. Get opkg-utils from the yoctoproject git, and install with make install.
2. Create your package file structure. See this wiki for some detailed explanation of how this should look.
3. When you have your directory structure, make sure permissions and ownage are correct! For the edison, all files/directories should be owned by root:root! (chown root:root -R <pkg>)
4. Run opkg-build <pkg> to automatically build the .ipk for the package.
5. Run opkg-make-index . > Packages to create the package index.
6. Run gzip -k Packages.
7. Update the repo.