OpenWrt 24.10.0-rc1 - Status of APK?

[Eric]

On Monday, December 2nd, 2024 at 18:27, Rich Brown <richb.hanover at gmail.com> wrote:

> A question about APK... There are two significant posts to the Forum heralding the arrival of APK. These were posted well before the meeting last week with the decision not to make the switch in 24.10. The posts are:
> 
> - https://forum.openwrt.org/t/major-change-notice-new-package-manager/215682
> - https://forum.openwrt.org/t/the-future-is-now-opkg-vs-apk/201164
> 
> Is there a succinct description of the current plan for opkg in 24.10 and the transition to APK going forward? That will make it easier for the Forum posters to update the message topics. Thanks.

Rich,

The transition plan was announced here
https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2024-November/043437.html
and archived here
https://openwrt.org/meetings/20241126

And a link to the notes was posted already on my opkg v apk thread:
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/the-future-is-now-opkg-vs-apk/201164/280

Eric