How are package versions controlled in OpenWRT builds?

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Hello,
can anyone help me understand how package versions are controller in OpenWRT?

I built today two images from separate folders with repo clones using the same configuration:

  • one from the 24.10.0-rc6 tag --> this one came with LuCI 24.360something
  • one from the openwrt-24.10 branch --> this came with LuCI 25.021

What controls this?
Looking at the commit that "locked" the RC configuration, I can see this:

image
image789×172 6.87 KB

but, out of this, that the only apparently relevant configuration I see is the override on the feeds (?).

Now the feeds overrides is this:

image
image1059×486 37.2 KB

so feeds for the RC tag are locked to a commit and that makes sense to me: if you build from the tag, you get repeatable results from the feed.

However, at the time I built the images, that commit and the branch TOT for LuCI where exactly the same so I expected the same package versions to be pulled but that is not the case.

...what am I missing in here?

2

Rc builds pin package tree, normally release and package branches flow freely.
Luci version is YY DDD

3

That's OK, thank you.
Can you point me to the files in the repo that have the version of the packages being pulled?

4

You have to look at the patticular branch or version hash of those repos linked.