[Commotion-dev] Nature of Commotion download links on website?

Will Hawkins hawkinsw at opentechinstitute.org
Tue Aug 27 18:51:07 UTC 2013


If we have something specific to report, I would really like to report a
bug on this.

Will

On 08/27/2013 02:46 PM, Paul Gardner-Stephen wrote:
> Thanks -- I have gone back to the 12.09 release of OpenWRT and all is
> better.
> 
> Should we file a bug with them do you think?
> 
> Paul.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Dan Staples
> <danstaples at opentechinstitute.org
> <mailto:danstaples at opentechinstitute.org>> wrote:
> 
>     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
>     <mailto: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>
>     > <mailto: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>>
>     >     >> <mailto: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> <tel:%2B1-202-570-9770>
>     >     >>     > Twitter: @prestonrhea
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>     >     <mailto:Commotion-dev at lists.chambana.net
>     <mailto:Commotion-dev at lists.chambana.net>>
>     >     >>     <mailto:Commotion-dev at lists.chambana.net
>     <mailto:Commotion-dev at lists.chambana.net>
>     >     <mailto:Commotion-dev at lists.chambana.net
>     <mailto:Commotion-dev at lists.chambana.net>>>
>     >     >>     > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/commotion-dev
>     >     >>
>     >     >>     --
>     >     >>     Dan Staples
>     >     >>
>     >     >>     Open Technology Institute
>     >     >>     https://commotionwireless.net
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>     >     <mailto:Commotion-dev at lists.chambana.net
>     <mailto:Commotion-dev at lists.chambana.net>>
>     >     >>     <mailto:Commotion-dev at lists.chambana.net
>     <mailto:Commotion-dev at lists.chambana.net>
>     >     <mailto:Commotion-dev at lists.chambana.net
>     <mailto:Commotion-dev at lists.chambana.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>>
>     <mailto: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.
>     >     >
>     >     > --
>     >     > Dan Staples
>     >     >
>     >     > Open Technology Institute
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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
> 
>     Open Technology Institute
>     https://commotionwireless.net
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