extracting and creating ipk files

Question

ipk packages are the intallation packages used by opkg.

I\'m trying to extract the contents of one of them and also create my own ipk.

I\'ve read that I should b

Answer 1

I have tested "ar x package-name.ipk" command but it didn't help

I found bellow command which worked perfectly

tar zxpvf package-name.ipk

This extracts three files:

debian-binary

data.tar.gz

control.tar.gz

use the same command to open data.tar.gz and control.tar.gz files

for more information refer to https://cognito.me.uk/computers/manual-extractioninstallation-of-ipk-packages-on-gargoyleopenwrt/