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

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

[nslu2-linux] Re: older ipkg kits?

You can try "ipkg install ./freeradius_1.1.7-2_armeb.ipk" This makes it clear that you want to install from file.

For building optware/nslu2 (unslung) toolchain, it's probably easier just use latest make/crosstool.mk and sources/crosstool.

Cheers,

-Brian

--- In nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com, "tlhackque" <tlhackque@...> wrote:
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> Thanks for the clues. I built the package - details below.
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> 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!
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> 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.
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> I note that this package has a 'recommends' for freeradius-doc; putting that kit in the same directory doesn't help.
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> 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
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> This seems excessively hard - if I explicitly specify a file, that's what I want.
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> Is there an option that I'm missing? If not this seems like a (moderately serious) bug.
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> Other thoughts?
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> Thanks.
>
> T
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> 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.
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> $ 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
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> Build fails because crosstool 0.38 isn't available.
> Visit http://kegel.com/crosstool/ and find 0.43 is.
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> Edit optware/make/crosstool.mk to get the newer crosstools
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> $ make toolchain ipkg-utils
> Ignore lots of glib doesn't build unoptimized errors...
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> $ make freeradius
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> Depends on openssl, site is down. Modify optware/make/openssl.mk to use a mirror:
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> OPENSSL_SITE=http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.openssl.org/source
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> Depends on mysql - for some reason, the kit downloads into '.' rather than 'downloads/'.
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> $ mv mysql downloads/
> $ make freeradius
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> 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).
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> $ make mysql
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> $ make freeradius
> $ make freeradius-ipk
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> and freeradius_1.1.7-2_armeb.ipk is in builds/
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> --- In nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com, "Brian" <b88zhou@> wrote:
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> > 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.
> > >
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