Re: [RFC] Stop providing binary package updates for release builds?

2021-12-14 Thread Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca
The package update is not a perfect solution but it is better to have it as is than to remove it. Updated packages are also used by imagebuilder and attended sysupgrade. I normally generate a new image to apply updates because some devices cannot afford the extra installation. If we need updated p

Re: [RFC] Stop providing binary package updates for release builds?

2021-12-13 Thread Sebastian Kemper
Am Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 08:42:52PM +0100 schrieb Jo-Philipp Wich: > > In my opinion, there is a fundamental decision to be made on whether we would > like to pursue the goal of (also) being a binary distribution for > routers/embedded appliances or if we simply concentrate on the build-from- > sour

Re: [RFC] Stop providing binary package updates for release builds?

2021-12-13 Thread Alberto Bursi
On 12/12/21 20:42, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote: - The wiki actively discourages users from upgrading packages [1] - The overall sentiment in the forum is to instruct users to not/never upgrade packages [2] but to always upgrade to the next release, build from source [3] or use snapshots

Re: [RFC] Stop providing binary package updates for release builds?

2021-12-13 Thread Bas Mevissen via openwrt-devel
The sender domain has a DMARC Reject/Quarantine policy which disallows sending mailing list messages using the original "From" header. To mitigate this problem, the original message has been wrapped automatically by the mailing list software.--- Begin Message --- On 2021-12-12 20:42, Jo-Philipp W

Re: [RFC] Stop providing binary package updates for release builds?

2021-12-13 Thread Bastian Bittorf
On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 08:42:52PM +0100, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote: > - Stop providing binary package updates; build release images and associated >repositories once only, archive the artifacts and redelegate build >resources back to master snapshots This! If people are interested in providi

[RFC] Stop providing binary package updates for release builds?

2021-12-12 Thread Jo-Philipp Wich
Hi, since the release of LEDE 17.01.0, OpenWrt started offering updated binary packages for released versions, means the HEAD of a released stable branch is continuously getting rebuilt and the resulting binaries are uploaded to the release repositories. Users will see those updated packages as "u