On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:14:40 -0700 Jacob Appelbaum <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I've had a report of a user installing Tor (package 'tor') on OpenWRT > (backfire) and they appear to have a much older version than what is > currently in svn. > > Why is this happening? Is there a way to ensure that users have the > current stable version of Tor as it appears in (the OpenWRT) svn? > Unfortunately uClibc doesn't have a stable ABI so packages built for trunk or newer versions of backfire don't necessarily work with older versions of backfire or trunk (segfaults etc). OpenWRT doesn't have the resources (due to openwrt being almost exclusively a volunteer project and developers tending to be busy with paid work unrelated to openwrt) to rebuild the newer packages tree against older versions of the core tree, so once a release is made packages are not updated until the core and packages together are updates. If you want to use stock OpenWRT you can be relatively current with the latest rc of the current openwrt release (currently 10.03.1~rc5) If you want to ensure your package specifically is at the latest version for users, I would provide a feed and a packages repository where you provide builds of new packages against the old core you are supporting. Regards, Daniel -- <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is. GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org
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