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[Persian Prince]

For creating ipk you can use https://forums.openp...d-generator-10/

For extracting ipk you can use 7-zip in windows with * option

[Abu Baniaz]

I meant with the files that people are posting. BTW, 7zip does not unpack the control files and pre/post install files

 

The goal is unpack an ipk, change files, update it, repack it, share it.

 

opkg tools does this as a self-sufficient plugin.

[Persian Prince]

I think you don't know what 7-zip could do in windows then

Soon I'll record a video for you (7-zip + IPK Creator)

[WanWizard]

I´ve read somwhere that the new tar version can ar too, so ar is no longer needed, can someone confirm that

 

On my own servers (RHEL7) and on our buildservers that doesn't work with the ipk's our buildserver generates.

[Dimitrij]

New EN version

/usr/bin/ipk-maker make_dir /tmp/IPK-BUILD

chown -Rh root:root /tmp/IPK-BUILD
/usr/bin/ipk-maker build /tmp/IPK-BUILD

Edited by Dimitrij, 3 October 2017 - 20:40.

[Persian Prince]

Simple video example for extracting ipk inside windows using 7-zip

Attached Files

•  ipk7zipwindows.zip   712.87KB   41 downloads

[Loui (PD1LOI)]

Well, complicated not at all...
I did a quick modification last evening to get it work on my HD51 (arm) box, a small test showed un-build/build was ok.
This afthernoon I've tried to un-build the ipk's from Abu Baniaz also succeed.
To build you need to avoid "_" maybe that was the problem I dont know for sure, but if you use the legal characters ([a-z 0-9.+-]) (no underscore) than I guess It works.
Im agree there are other (better) methods

Bij mij werkt het ook op mijn Mutant HD51.

Edited by Loui (PD1LOI), 27 January 2019 - 20:36.

[Abu Baniaz]

Many thanks for the uploads.

 

Can someone give me step by step instructions (an idiot's guide)  on how to un-build, edit and re-build the ipk?

 

Are there any updated instructions please? LraiZer's script does not work on newer versions of linux.

 

https://forums.openpli.org/topic/55844-autobouquet-plugin/#entry809255

Edited by Abu Baniaz, 24 January 2022 - 09:26.

[LraiZer]

For Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS, try install the missing required tools ar and fakeroot.

 

sudo apt install binutils fakeroot

 

also change this code in both the unpack and the repack scripts to find .xz as well as .gz archives

 

 

from

for f in *.tar.gz;

to

for f in *.tar.*z;

 

 

[LraiZer]

Are there any updated instructions please? LraiZer's script does not work on newer versions of linux.

https://forums.openpli.org/topic/55844-autobouquet-plugin/#entry809255

 

 

 

For Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS, try install the missing required tools ar and fakeroot.

 

sudo apt install binutils fakeroot

 

also change this code in both the unpack and the repack scripts to find .xz as well as .gz archives

 

 

from

for f in *.tar.gz;

to

for f in *.tar.*z;

 

 

also change this code in the repack script so that archive manager in Ubuntu can detect the repacked .ipk as a valid archive type. debian-binary needs to be first packaged file read by the archive manager.

 

from

ar -r $BASENAME *.tar.gz debian-binary

to

ar -r $BASENAME debian-binary *.tar.gz

[Abu Baniaz]

Thank you.