apk has replaced opkg in main branch SNAPSHOT builds The apk switchover is complete. It is the package manager not only in main snapshot, but on the 25.12 release branch. opkg will soon be relegated to history. [image] @ynezz has graciously copied out the contents of the cheatsheet and put …

[image] George: Is it going to be possible to specify dependency version requirements in Makefile? Something like >=2.0.3. Right now you're basically stuck with whatever the version of a package is in the current branch, which may or may not be compatible. This includes host packages. I asked…

I'm pretty sure the answer to the question about "can you constrain dependencies" is yes. Take a look in the package database, /lib/apk/db/installed, and you see such things as this (first one I found, but there are many): ... P:firewall4 V:2025.03.17~b6e51575-r1 A:x86_64 S:31056 I:204800 T:This p…

Aha, in case you didn't find it yet, looks like EXTRA_DEPENDS is how you do it: package/network/config/firewall4/Makefile main define Package/firewall4 SECTION:=net CATEGORY:=Base system TITLE:=OpenWrt 4th gen fire…

Thanks. EXTRA_DEPENDS works with apk. It's strange that setting a dependency version doesn't seem to be documented in the apk docs: Creating an Alpine package - Alpine Linux

Interesting. Now the previous set of packages doesn't work either: root@OpenWrt:/etc/apk/repositories.d# cat distfeeds.list https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/arm_cortex-a15_neon-vfpv4/base/packages.adb https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/arm_cortex-a15_neon-vfpv4/luci/p…

Ignore pls. Got answer here: [image] Update Packages Gives Error Installing and Using OpenWrt To provide part of my own answer, it looks like snapshot does not have HTTPS installed. I went into Configure apk and changed all the HTTPS to HTTP. Now update lists yields: [h…

Managed to fix up the distfeeds.list. However, dependencies are missing: root@OpenWRT-BUGS:/etc/apk/repositories.d# apk add nmap nmap-full nmap-ssl libstdc fetch https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/packages/arm_cortex-a15_neon-vfpv4/base/packages.adb WARNING: updating and opening https://downlo…

in 2025 is planned to release stable serie with apk finally?

I'm looking forward for the migration!

So am I. Just shows how much work goes into it. We could have been waiting months for 24.10 if they had not decided to go without apk for the time being.

The future is now: opkg vs apk

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tomkcpr May 20, 2025, 12:29am 425

Ignore pls. Got answer here: