ie to this experience
I followed instructions here: Edison Package Repo Configuration Instructions and ran into an issue running opkg update, opkg upgrade. The issue I had was with the kernel image. opkg pulled down "kernel-image-3.10.17-poky-edison+_3.10.17+git0+6ad20f049a_c03195ed6e-r0_edison.ipk" and then proceeded to update things. It then bombed trying to create a symlink in /boot. Since /boot is configured as a vfat fs by default, symlinks aren't supported. Manually renaming the file (forgoing the whole symlink deal) seemed to resolve the issue. Also, given that vmlinuz isn't deleted in this process, the upgrade causes opkg to run out of space and the update fails at this point.
The work around is pretty easy, but I just wanted to let everyone else know in case it catches someone else off guard. It would probably be good to update the control file in the package so this isn't an issue or change the package in such a way so that opkg doesn't think it's a drop-in replacement for the stock kernel.
Thanks for the repo btw. Very useful!