[Commotion-dev] Nature of Commotion download links on website?
Dan Staples
danstaples at opentechinstitute.org
Mon Aug 26 12:43:27 UTC 2013
On 08/26/2013 07:05 AM, Chris Ritzo wrote:
> we can certainly update the site with images of our stable builds for
> commotion openwrt. Are you also asking for stable releases of openwrt,
> sans commotion?
>
>
> Paul Gardner-Stephen <paul at servalproject.org> wrote:
>
> It would be great to have pre-built stable releases of openwrt
> somewhere, as I have been bitten a few times by the ephemeral nightly
> builds of openwrt, and would like to avoid having to build everything
> myself.
>
> On that note, and related to the hostapd bugs recently discussed, can
> one of you throw me a "good" hostapd package? I am finding that the
> latest builds of openwrt have a nasty bug that shows up especially when
> we have two mesh extenders in wifi range of each other. I want to see
> if hostapd is to blame.
>
> Paul.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Chris Ritzo <critzo at chambana.net
> <mailto:critzo at chambana.net>> wrote:
>
> On Sun 25 Aug 2013 08:56:49 PM EDT, Dan Staples wrote:
> > On Sun 25 Aug 2013 01:33:51 PM EDT, Ben West wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I'm checking back in on this thread to confirm the nightly build bot
> >> for Commotion-OpenWRT is no longer running. (Or never was?)
> >>
> >> A gentleman asking me about problems he's been having using images
> >> dated 8/23/13 had me a bit confused, since the latest stable images
> >> are still dated 5/24/13. I think he had been trying to build his own
> >> firmware, hence the recent date.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Dan Staples
> >> <danstaples at opentechinstitute.org
> <mailto:danstaples at opentechinstitute.org>
> >> <mailto:danstaples at opentechinstitute.org
> <mailto:danstaples at opentechinstitute.org>>> wrote:
> >>
> >> The links in the Stable section should be pretty static until
> we hit a
> >> new release, at which time they will change. We don't have
> the nightly
> >> builds occurring at the moment, however.
> >>
> >> On Wed 12 Jun 2013 04:27:22 PM EDT, Preston Rhea wrote:
> >> > Some folks are interested in adding direct download links
> in the
> >> user
> >> > documentation for installing Commotion-OpenWRT:
> >> >
> >>
> https://code.commotionwireless.net/projects/commotion/wiki/Stock_Ubiquiti_Install_Guide
> >> >
> >> > Are the links that show up on the download page always the
> same,
> >> or do
> >> > they change with every nightly build or new stable release?
> >> >
> >> > I'm looking especially at the portion of, say,
> >> >
> >>
> https://code.commotionwireless.net/attachments/download/357/openwrt-ar71xx-generic-ubnt-bullet-m-squashfs-factory.bin
> >> > that is /download/***/openwrt.... does that change with every
> >> new code
> >> > push?
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Preston Rhea
> >> > Program Associate, Open Technology Institute
> >> > New America Foundation
> >> > +1-202-570-9770 <tel:%2B1-202-570-9770> <tel:%2B1-202-570-9770>
> >> > Twitter: @prestonrhea
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> >>
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> >> Dan Staples
> >>
> >> Open Technology Institute
> >> https://commotionwireless.net
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Ben West
> >> me at benwest.name <mailto:me at benwest.name> <mailto:me at benwest.name
> <mailto:me at benwest.name>>
> >
> > Yeah, he must have been building his own, b/c AFAIK no images have
> been
> > uploaded to the website since the DR1 release.
> >
> > --
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> >
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>
> Dan is correct, Ben. We hope to re-enable nightly builds as soon as we
> can. We'll either place nightly builds on the downloads page or on a
> separate page, with stable release images on the current page.
>
> -Chris
>
> -
> Chris Ritzo
> Technologist, Open Technology Institute
> New America Foundation
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>
Paul, we ran into the hostapd badness a few weeks ago, and so we pinned
our OpenWRT revision to @36682, and the openwrt package feed to @36537,
both known-working revisions to around the time AA was declared stable.
Maybe give that a try.
See:
https://github.com/opentechinstitute/commotion-openwrt/blob/master/setup.sh
https://github.com/opentechinstitute/commotion-openwrt/blob/master/feeds.conf
--
Dan Staples
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