Originally Posted by joshewah:
Is anyone familiar with ipkg? I wonder where it pulls the locations from. If it was like apt on debian and we could just edit a sources file and add a custom sources that would be awesome for installing custom software and additional user-made packages without using the app catalog.
Have a read of the #webos-internals logs in
http://logs.nslu2-linux.org/livelogs...-internals.txt and you will see from Jun 10 05:34:11 to Jun 10 05:42:56 where I talk bpadalino through installation of the Optware ipkg feed, so he can now ipkg install over 1400 different packages from
http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op.../cross/stable/ ...
We're working on doing a loopback mount from the big vfat partition before writing up a procedure for this - we don't want people filling up / by running ipkg install emacs22 ...
Anyone with a rooted Pre who wants to help, just join #webos-internals on Freenode and let yourself be known :-)
-- Rod