On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:28 AM, koniu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with opkg reporting built-in packages as upgradable
> because of differences in /usr/lib/opkg/status file on /rom and
> /overlay (USB pendrive block-extroot).
>
> I just reflashed my router with a fresh build from trunk and now "opkg
> list_upgradable" wrongly shows a bunch of packages that are built into
> the image. Let's take libc as an example:
>
>  r...@marvin:~# opkg list_upgradable | grep libc
>  Multiple packages (libc and libc) providing same name marked HOLD or
> PREFER. Using latest.
>  Multiple packages (libc and libc) providing same name marked HOLD or
> PREFER. Using latest.
>  libc - 0.9.31-60 - 0.9.31-61
>
> This is because there's 2 different versions of /usr/lib/opkg/status -
> one in /rom and one /overlay - and the package is, for some reason, in
> both of them:

It sounds like when you created the files on your (soon to be) /
filesystem, instead of copying the overlay, you separately copied the
2 filesystems that comprise it...  You would have ended up with the
original contents of the image as well as any "upgrades" you have made
to it simultaneously.

I also may be way off here since I am just getting started with this
stuff.  I'm going to replace my redboot completely so I can boot off
of sdhc and completely avoid this mess (I hope anyhow).  Ubiquity is
not too forthcoming in providing their redboot sources though.  I may
just end up losing their recovery procedure.

If I am way off, please let me know so I have a better understanding as well.

>  r...@marvin:~# grep -A1 libc$ /rom/usr/lib/opkg/status
> /overlay/usr/lib/opkg/status
>  /rom/usr/lib/opkg/status:Package: libc
>  /rom/usr/lib/opkg/status-Version: 0.9.31-61
>  --
>  /overlay/usr/lib/opkg/status:Package: libc
>  /overlay/usr/lib/opkg/status-Version: 0.9.31-60
>
> Now, as far as I can tell, libc has never been installed in the
> extroot /overlay:
>
>  r...@marvin:~# opkg files libc
>  Package libc (0.9.31-60) is installed on root and has the following files:
>  /lib/libdl-0.9.31.so
>  /lib/libnsl.so.0
>  /lib/libutil-0.9.31.so
>  /lib/libnsl-0.9.31.so
>  /lib/libresolv.so.0
>  /lib/ld-uClibc-0.9.31.so
>  /lib/libm.so.0
>  /lib/libm-0.9.31.so
>  /lib/libutil.so.0
>  /lib/libuClibc-0.9.31.so
>  /lib/libresolv-0.9.31.so
>  /lib/ld-uClibc.so.0
>  /lib/libdl.so.0
>  /lib/libcrypt-0.9.31.so
>  /lib/libc.so.0
>  /lib/libcrypt.so.0
>
>  r...@marvin:~# ls /overlay/lib/
>  firmware  modules   uci       upgrade   wifi
>
>  r...@marvin:~# ls /rom/lib/
>  ar71xx.sh             libdl.so.0            libuClibc-0.9.31.so
>  config                libgcc_s.so.1         libuci.so
>  firewall              libm-0.9.31.so        libuci.so.2010-09-28
>  firmware              libm.so.0             libutil-0.9.31.so
>  firstboot             libnsl-0.9.31.so      libutil.so.0
>  functions             libnsl.so.0           modules
>  ld-uClibc-0.9.31.so   libpthread-0.9.31.so  network
>  ld-uClibc.so.0        libpthread.so.0       preinit
>  libc.so.0             libresolv-0.9.31.so   upgrade
>  libcrypt-0.9.31.so    libresolv.so.0        wifi
>  libcrypt.so.0         librt-0.9.31.so
>  libdl-0.9.31.so       librt.so.0
>
>
> Setup details:
>
> * I'm using my own build of trunk with block-extroot and relevant usb
> and fs kmods built into the image.
> * rootfs on the USB pendrive is mounted through /etc/config/fstab:
>
>   config mount
>        option device   /dev/sda1
>        option fstype   ext3
>        option options  rw,async
>        option enabled  1
>        option enabled_fsck 0
>        option is_rootfs 1
>
> * /etc/opkg.conf:
>
>   src/gz snapshots 
> http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/ar71xx/packages
>   src/gz local http://10.7.7.7:8000
>   dest root /
>   dest ram /tmp
>   lists_dir ext /var/opkg-lists
>   option overlay_root /overlay
>
>
> Am I doing something wrong? How do I deal with this kind of situation,
> how to avoid it, what is common practice for using external rootfs
> when reflashing the /rom?
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