Hi,
I've upgraded to 19.07.7 on my TP-Link TL-WDR3600 v1 to ath79/generic and i'm trying to install etherwake and hostapd-openssl but no packages are found.
Do i need to go back to an earlier version to have those packages available?
Regards
opkg update
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OpenWrt 19.07.7, r11306-c4a6851c72
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root@opo01w01ap01:~# opkg update
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.7/targets/ath79/generic/packages/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_core
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.7/targets/ath79/generic/packages/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.7/targets/ath79/generic/kmods/4.14.221-1-b84a5a29b1d5ae1dc33ccf9ba292ca1d/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_kmods
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.7/targets/ath79/generic/kmods/4.14.221-1-b84a5a29b1d5ae1dc33ccf9ba292ca1d/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.7/packages/mips_24kc/base/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_base
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.7/packages/mips_24kc/base/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.7/packages/mips_24kc/freifunk/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_freifunk
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.7/packages/mips_24kc/freifunk/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.7/packages/mips_24kc/luci/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_luci
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.7/packages/mips_24kc/luci/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.7/packages/mips_24kc/packages/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_packages
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.7/packages/mips_24kc/packages/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.7/packages/mips_24kc/routing/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_routing
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.7/packages/mips_24kc/routing/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.7/packages/mips_24kc/telephony/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/openwrt_telephony
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/19.07.7/packages/mips_24kc/telephony/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
root@opo01w01ap01:~# opkg install etherwake hostapd-openssl
Unknown package 'etherwake'.
Unknown package 'hostapd-openssl'.
Collected errors:
* opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package etherwake.
* opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package hostapd-openssl.
hmm, the mips_24kc package index for 19.07.7 indeed looks rather sparse…
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There's some huge build service failure:
https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/faillogs-19.07/mips_24kc/packages/etherwake/
I guess you should wait a few hours until it is resolved and the packages are rebuilt.
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Thank you.
I'll wait until the service is back to normal.
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This was very confusing at first as I did not realize even older releases and previous builds are impacted by this. For instance today I could not pull iperf3, ipset, others even on older releases. Since 19.07.7 was failing and snapshot seemed to work, I wasted quite a bit of time iterating through older configs and releases (to bisect my error) only to find that the packages just disappeared from all feeds for all 19.x releases.
It seems that not being able to download the last stable version might be a problem, if say an authorization or authentication package could not be pulled during a deployment.
Are there feeds that would allow new openwrt deployments to continue based on packages from last known good build if this happens again? Without having to pull from the cache of an already deployed device?
It seems that not being able to obtain previously available packages, even on older releases, shouldn't be dependant on failing new builds.
I noted a number of packages became unavailable for 19.07.x today, on mips_24kc, including ipset and others.
In my (very) limited understanding I believe that the packages even for older releases are built everyday(night) from the 19.07 head branch (i.e. packages are newer than the 19.07.7 image which is the latest stable build at the time of this post), and since the build is broken we are having this issue.
But I agree with you, perhaps there should be a snapshot of all packages from the same tag when 19.07.7 was build (today it seems that the available packages are only from 19.07 "head").
Anyway, as I mentioned, it is my limited understanding. Anyone with a deeper understanding of the OpenWRT stable builds can please correct me.