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

Extracting with these commands:

1. Extract the file by running the command:

     ar -xv   <.ipk file>
   

2. Extract the control.tar.gz file by running the command:

     tar -zxvf control.tar.gz
   

3. data.tar.gz : untar by running the command:

        tar –zxvf data.tar.gz