On 25/04/2018 00:22, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Was so sure I didn't need to > do it again. I know this data is flushed upon reboot, but is it also > flushed at other times (I could swear that I haven't rebooted since the > last time I had done "opkg update")?
Three things come to my mind:
1 - I learnt that "uptime" is much more trustable than my mind, when
needing to take decisions based on "reboot-time" of my
little-devices-OpenWRT-based :-)
2 - I'm wondering --right now-- why "opkg update" is _NOT_
reboot-persistent. I mean:
- is having _OLD_ package indexes WORSE than not having them at all?";
- are package indexes kept in memory? Why aren't they flushed on the
file-system?
What am I missing, here?
3 - It would be nice --as a new feature of the "opkg" client tool-- to
raise an alert when package indexes is too-old or, worse, is completely
missing. I for myself, a couple of years ago, spent much time exactly
missing this requirement ("opkg update"). It was such a bad-feeling that
since then, _EVERY_ time I need to install something, I _ALWAYS_ prefix an
"opkg update" :-)
Cheers,
DV
P.S.:
>> Try 'opkg update' first then 'opkg find conntrack'
>
> In any case, thank you for stating the obvious that I had missed,
you're welcome :-)
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