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Major Overhaul: OpenWrt Adopts Alpine's APK as New Package Manager (linuxiac.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I've never seen it used outside of OpwnWRT. I assumed they made it specifically for it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

There's some usage in reMarkable: https://toltec-dev.org/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

They version hasn't changed since 2011 if that tells you something.

Opkg is available for buildroot and some other embedded frameworks