On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Hartmut Knaack <knaac...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Paolo Pisati schrieb: > > and what about missing packages in the release repo? (e.g. transmission > in 12.09) > > > > but even more worryingly, what about security fixes? > > access points, dsl modem/routers, etcetc are at the forefront of our > networks and tier1 targets for attacks, how do we handle security? > > > > and besides, if we are meant to stick with the original release repo, > what's the point of 'opkg upgrade'? > This is a trade-off situation between bleeding-edge functionality and > stability, and you need to decide on your own, which one is more important > to you. Security fixes should get into the stable releases, which might > require an update/upgrade of additionally installed packages. For security > fixes in the firmware image though (kernel, basic system), it gets a bit > tricky, since it requires a sysupgrade. > which pkgs are part of the core system? and how a pkg is selected to be part of core or not? > opkg upgrade should probably help you, when switching from one release to > another via sysupgrade, to also move your installed packages to the new > release. > And if you now want to switch to trunk, be warned, that this release is > highly dynamic. While this is no big deal for program packages, you will > encounter problems to install kernel modules as soon as the bot has built a > newer version. ok, let's say that i want to run the bleeding edge (thus trunk), why my kernel pkg is not present in the list of upgradable pkgs (while there's clearly a new version)? flag@OpenWrt:/mnt/storage/flag$ sudo opkg update Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_adjustment/12.09/x86/alix2/packages/Packages.gz . Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/attitude_adjustment. Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/x86/packages//Packages.gz. Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/trunk. flag@OpenWrt:/mnt/storage/flag$ sudo opkg list-upgradable | grep -i kernel flag@OpenWrt:/mnt/storage/flag$ flag@OpenWrt:/mnt/storage/flag$ sudo opkg list | grep "^kernel " kernel - 3.3.8-1-856232096e5924b296e029cee7d328d1 from my web browser: kernel_3.8.13-1-49956727e4f1f9c9dc03ff3fbe864c7..> 16-Sep-2013 01:49 649 only 649 bytes? looks like it doesn't detect the new kernel package as a replacement for my old one, or there's something else wrong here but at the same time, all the kmod pkgs require the new kernel (and thus if i 'opkg upgrade' i'll break my system): flag@OpenWrt:/mnt/storage/flag$ sudo opkg list-upgradable | grep kmod Multiple packages (kmod-usb-storage and kmod-usb-storage) providing same name marked HOLD or PREFER. Using latest. kmod-usb-storage - 3.3.8-1 - 3.8.13-1 Multiple packages (kmod-i2c-scx200-acb and kmod-i2c-scx200-acb) providing same name marked HOLD or PREFER. Using latest. kmod-i2c-scx200-acb - 3.3.8-1 - 3.8.13-1 Multiple packages (kmod-usb-core and kmod-usb-core) providing same name marked HOLD or PREFER. Using latest. kmod-usb-core - 3.3.8-1 - 3.8.13-1 Multiple packages (kmod-crypto-manager and kmod-crypto-manager) providing same name marked HOLD or PREFER. Using latest. kmod-crypto-manager - 3.3.8-1 - 3.8.13-1 ...etcetc... and what are those "Multiple packages (kmod-crypto-manager and kmod-crypto-manager) providing same name marked HOLD or PREFER. Using latest." messages? bye, p.
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