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PKget repository oe-Kirkstone

question: I would like to submit for approval the pwidgets-2.6.0-x86_64.pet that I have used on bionicpup64 and have now installed in Easy OS Kirkstone 5.4.9 to the PKget package manager. How do you submit it ?

Just post it here.
Anyone can download it and then click on it to install. That will run PKGget and it will be registered as installed.

As long as the file size of pwidgets-2.6.0-x86_64.pet falls within the board's size limits we should be good to go with a direct attachment to the first post on this topic.

here is it for download then.

rockedge wrote: ↑Sun Aug 06, 2023 6:16 pm

As long as the file size of pwidgets-2.6.0-x86_64.pet falls within the board's size limits we should be good to go with a direct attachment to the first post on this topic.

@rockedge
I didn't think of that!

Hosting the forum must require a lot of data allowance, so we don't want to turn the forum into a hosting place for packages!

Regarding PKGget, it has repositories "noarch", "pet-kirkstone" and "oe-kirkstone" hosted on ibiblio.org
"pet-kirkstone" is for packages compiled in a running EasyOS Kirkstone-series.
"oe-kirkstone" is packages compiled in OpenEmbedded Kirkstone-series.

Regarding "pet-kirkstone", I don't want to host foreign PET packages in it. The package must be compiled in EasyOS, to guarantee compatibility.

For example, all binary executables in EasyOS will run on the nocona CPU, which is the very earliest 64-bit CPU released by Intel. Some other Linux distributions compile for Intel Core-2 CPU as earliest supported, which has one extra CPU machine instruction than nocona.

Also, there are subtle differences between shared libraries in different distributions.