linuxgeek: [nslu2-linux] Re: older ipkg kits?

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

[nslu2-linux] Re: older ipkg kits?

Thanks for the clues. I built the package - details below.

But ipkg now refuses to install it! If I say:
$ ipkg install freeradius_1.1.7-2_armeb.ipk
ipkg starts downloading the 2.0.5-2 package from the unslung/cross feed!

I've tried -force-downgrade, even -f /dev/null. But (as demonstrated with strace) ipkg goes and reads the /etc/ipkg feed files & then downloads the 2.0.5-2 package.

I note that this package has a 'recommends' for freeradius-doc; putting that kit in the same directory doesn't help.

The only way to persuade it to use the file specified on the command line is to
$ mv /etc/ipkg /etc/ipkg-x; ipkg install freeradius_1.1.7-2_armeb.ipk; mv /etc/ipkg-x /etc/ipkg

This seems excessively hard - if I explicitly specify a file, that's what I want.

Is there an option that I'm missing? If not this seems like a (moderately serious) bug.

Other thoughts?

Thanks.

T

Here's what it took to build this package - I'll make a wiki HOWTO when I've dug out of the current crisis...meantime, perhaps this will help someone else.

$ svn co https://svn.nslu2-linux.org/svnroot/optware/trunk optware
$ svn log make/freeradius.mk | less
# r8749 is the rev that upgraded from 1.1.7
$ svn up -r8748 <-- We want the rev BEFORE the upgrading commit!
$ cd optware; make <platform>-target
$ cd <platform>; make directories toolchain ipkg-utils

Build fails because crosstool 0.38 isn't available.
Visit http://kegel.com/crosstool/ and find 0.43 is.

Edit optware/make/crosstool.mk to get the newer crosstools

$ make toolchain ipkg-utils
Ignore lots of glib doesn't build unoptimized errors...

$ make freeradius

Depends on openssl, site is down. Modify optware/make/openssl.mk to use a mirror:

OPENSSL_SITE=http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.openssl.org/source

Depends on mysql - for some reason, the kit downloads into '.' rather than 'downloads/'.

$ mv mysql downloads/
$ make freeradius

Curses! ncurses-5.6.tar.gz isn't on the distribution site. ncurses.tar.gz has 5.7. Fetch it, put it in downloads/ and update make/ncurses (which mysql wants).

$ make mysql

$ make freeradius
$ make freeradius-ipk

and freeradius_1.1.7-2_armeb.ipk is in builds/

--- In nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com, "Brian" <b88zhou@...> wrote:
>
> Optware package changes are all recorded in subversion.
>
> 1) Follow the instruction on
> http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Optware/AddAPackageToOptware
> to get optware subversion checkout;
>
> 2) Then do "svn log make/freeradius.mk | less" look for the commit that upgrades it from 1.1.7, in this case it's 8749;
>
> 3) You'd want to "turn back the clock"
> The command probably is "svn up -r8749"
>
> 4) Build toolchain, and try to build the package
>
> I think I've noticed that in order to build unslung toolchain, you'd need host gcc 3.x
>
> Good luck,
>
> -Brian
>
> --- In nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com, "tlhackque" <tlhackque@> wrote:
> >
> > I'm rebuilding an unslung system from a disk failure, looking for freeradius 1.1.7-2 - not quite ready to update to freeradius V2 - which is the current feed.
> >
> > Is the old .ipk file available somewhere? If not, is there a way to build it from the source repository?
> >
> > It would be good to have a HOWTO that describes how to get the build system to to build a specific version of any package - if someone can give me the necessary clues, I'll be happy to add to the wiki.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>