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 be able to untar them but that is not true.
I've tried:
tar -zxvf mypack.ipk
and I get:
zip: stdin: not in gzip format
I've also tried:
tar -xvf mypack.ipk
and I get:
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
I've found that most of the information on the internet regarding ipk's are inaccurate.
My ipk was generated by bitbake. I'm having a hard time with bitbake and want to avoid using it.
Any ideas on how to extract and how to create ipk files? A simple template with a single package would be useful to have.
I figured it out.
You can extract the main package with the ar x command, then extract the control.tar.gz with the tar -zxf command.