Which IPKG repository for the WL-HDD?

[dl9sec]

Hi all,

while digging around here at the forum about IPKG repositories i asked myself which ipkg-repositories are usable for the WL-HDD?
Can i use all the packages made for the wl500g for the WL-HDD (with Oleg's firmware installed)?

What are the differences of the repositoris that can be found at http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds?

Very confusing :confused:

Regards, Thorsten

[wengi]

use the following:

[admin@blechbuechse root]$ cat /opt/etc/ipkg.conf
src/gz optware http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable
dest /opt/ /
native is empty anyway...

wengi

[dl9sec]

Hi wengi,

thanks for the reply.

What is the difference between the "oleg"-tree and e.g. the "wl500g"-tree?

If i install IPKG for the first time according to the HOW-TO at the forum, the packages are fetched from http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/unslung/wl500g/ by default. Out of this repository i installed screen, nano and openssl. Do i have to uninstall and reinstall them from the "oleg"-tree?

Thanks in advance,

Thorsten

[al37919]

They are built with different libraries. optware/oleg is newer and has more packages. In the 8th version of the Oleg's firmware this will be the default repository. Yes, it is better to reinstall everything.

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Done successfully. :cool:

Thanks for the explanation.

A word @wengi and the How-To:

Section 6 (mc):
- /etc/profile is a volatile file at my WL-HDD (Oleg-FW 1.9.2.7-7c) which can't be saved by 'flashfs save'. My workaround (after reading linux-forums for hours and hours) was to create a file named '.profile' at root's home dir /usr/local/root with the suggested lines nescessary for running mc.
BTW: here you can put further aliases e.g.
alias ll="ls -la"
Don't forget to make this file non-volatile with
flashfs save && flashfs commit && flashfs enable as usual...

Regards, Thorsten

*Corrected '.profiles' to '.profile'. Thanks to al37919 for the hint...

[al37919]

You probably mean /usr/local/root/.profile
BTW, you can save also /etc/profile to flash.
Just edit /etc/profile and afterwards do the following:

cat >> /usr/local/.files << EOF
/etc/profile
EOF
flashfs save && flashfs commit && flashfs enable && reboot
after reboot your changes will be kept. /usr/local/.files is the list of additional files which are saved in the flashfs.

[wengi]

A word @wengi and the How-To:

Section 6 (mc):
- /etc/profile is a volatile file at my WL-HDD (Oleg-FW 1.9.2.7-7c) which can't be saved by 'flashfs save'. My workaround (after reading linux-forums for hours and hours) was to create a file named '.profiles' at root's home dir /usr/local/root with the suggested lines nescessary for running mc.
BTW: here you can put further aliases e.g.
alias ll="ls -la"
Don't forget to make this file non-volatile with
flashfs save && flashfs commit && flashfs enable as usual...

Regards, Thorsten

You are right. This should have been /opt/etc/profile. I changed it.
Thanks
wengi