[Arm-netbook] GK802 for $70

[luke.leighton]

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml at gmail.com> wrote:

>> > Btw, is that only me who thinks that dpkg is bad choice of a package
>> > manager for embedded system?
>>
>>  yes!!! you want to go back to dll hell feel free! :)
>
> That's not what I mean of course.

 oh right - sorry.

> There're "dedicated" package managers
> for embedded systems. Opkg (http://code.google.com/p/opkg/) is pretty
> good, as exemplified by multi-year OpenWRT experience (especially since
> yours truly did some profiling and fixed some glorious inefficiencies:
> http://code.google.com/p/opkg/source/detail?r=17
> http://code.google.com/p/opkg/source/detail?r=18)

 ahh, i love opkg.  it's a cut-down version of dpkg btw :)

 yeah i get the impression that having to write to 15mbyte files isn't
exactly a good thing:

lkcl at zoo:~$ ls -altr !$
ls -altr /var/lib/dpkg/
total 6032
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root       0 Nov 10  2011 parts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root       8 Nov 28 10:07 cmethopt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     219 Dec 13 13:16 statoverride-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     258 Dec 18 14:16 statoverride
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      11 Dec 21 11:49 arch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    1331 Jan 31 12:24 diversions-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    1400 Jan 31 12:24 diversions
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root    2144 May 20 11:33 alternatives
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root     662 May 23 12:39 triggers
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root     876 May 23 14:47 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1502173 May 23 14:47 available-old
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  285056 May 24 16:32 info
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1502783 May 24 16:32 available
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1572415 May 24 16:32 status-old
-rw-r----- 1 root root       0 May 24 16:32 lock
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1572416 May 24 16:32 status
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root     284 May 24 16:32 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root       0 May 24 16:32 updates

there must be a better way of doing that.