/daily/upstream-1907 luci did not work (missing package "luci-lib-ipkg")

[RobinBrandt87]

The package "luci-lib-ipkg" was split from "luci-base" in openwrt/luci@4bbe325.
This problem was solved in freifunk-berlin/firmware-packages@c76c35b. We can fix this by creating a new branch of the packages for the 1907 an change it. Or use the version from SAm0815, but i don't know other changes in this branch.

[pmelange]

Temporary workaround on a freshly installed daily/upstream_1907 image (don't forget to connect the WAN port):

echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" > /etc/resolv.conf
cd /tmp
wget https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/mipsel_24kc/luci/luci-lib-ipkg_git-19.204.23774-bd44189-1_all.ipk
opkg install /tmp/luci-lib-ipkg_git-19.204.23774-bd44189-1_all.ipk

Yes, I agree the luci-lib-ipkg package should be included in these builds. I have privately written @SvenRoederer asking him to do this. For a reason I didn't quite understand, he didn't want to.

[SvenRoederer]

See also #668

As mentioned in this private conversation, the daily/upstream-1907 branch of firmware is using the regular master-branch of our packages-feed. This master-branch is not having a dependency of luci-lib-ipkg. So the solution seems to make a new 1907-branch of or packages-feed and include the missing dependency.
But I don't have the resources to maintain another branch and keep in sync with master. One reason are the constant rebase-conflicts from package-version-number (see PR freifunk-berlin/firmware-packages#188 for my idea to work around this).
I sugget:

• getting rid of using luci-lib-ipkg
• create a branch for 1907 any maintain it

[SvenRoederer]

echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" > /etc/resolv.conf
cd /tmp
wget https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/mipsel_24kc/luci/luci-lib-ipkg_git-19.204.23774-bd44189-1_all.ipk
opkg install /tmp/luci-lib-ipkg_git-19.204.23774-bd44189-1_all.ipk

You can also do:

echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" > /etc/resolv.conf
opkg update
opkg install luci-lib-ipkg

[SvenRoederer]

@RobinBrandt87 wrote:

Or use the version from SAm0815, but i don't know other changes in this branch.

I strongly do not recommend using SAm0815_experimental branch as base for other branches.

[SvenRoederer]

I integrated PR #714 into the upstream-1907 branch. Based on this I put freifunk-berlin/firmware-packages#158 via "git show" as a patch into the build.
Hope this works with less maintenance.

[SvenRoederer]

After switching the firmware-master to openwrt-1907 we officially updated the dependencies to include "luci-lib-ipkg" (freifunk-berlin/firmware-packages@582fec0).
So this issue is fixed.