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

If you want a list of files in an ipk, you can do something like:

#!/bin/sh
for f
do
   tar -x -z -f $f ./data.tar.gz -O | tar tvzf -
done

-O is extract to standard output. ipk files used to be AR (like DPKG), but are now tgz. I feel that some dpkg utility ought to cope with ipkg files, but I haven't found the right one.