[Commotion-dev] Problem with new DR1.1 build

[Dan Staples]

On Thu 27 Jun 2013 05:16:06 PM EDT, Ben West wrote:
> Looks like there are a bunch of IPv6 related changed being backported
> into AA right now, and I'll venture a guess that is relevant to this
> issue.
>
> Here is the URL for browsing changesets to current AA:
> https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/branches/attitude_adjustment
>
> ... versus the URL for commits made to the tag
> 'attitude_adjustment_12.09':
> https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/tags/attitude_adjustment_12.09
>
> Unfortunately, it does look like using the tag means you get no
> updates at all until the OpenWRT dev team makes another stable release
> (i.e. circa 2015).  And it doesn't appear the OpenWRT git repos using
> any tagging at all.  Likewise, less chance of bisecting the root cause.
>
> Would pinning the feeds.conf file to specific revisions of AA be more
> appealing?
>
> How about anyone on this list with a /known working/ DR1 build tree
> sitting around please do an 'svn info' or 'git log' to see what
> revision they're at.  I have r36969 I can try out here, to see if it
> is affected by this issue.
>
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Dan Staples
> <danstaples at opentechinstitute.org
> <mailto:danstaples at opentechinstitute.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 06/27/2013 02:02 PM, Jordan McCarthy wrote:
>     > I can confirm the presence of the initial warning message, and
>     > would add that it has been coming up on clean builds for at least
>     > the past week.  I can't say anything about the quality of the
>     > resulting images, unfortunately, because I don't have a router with
>     > me.
>     >
>     >> Jordan
>     >
>     > Jordan McCarthy Technical Program Associate | Open Technology
>     > Institute | New America Foundation My Public Key: 0xC08D8042 | 4A61
>     > 3D39 4125 127D 65EA DDC2 BFBD A2E9 C08D 8042
>     >
>     > On 06/27/2013 09:08 AM, Dan Staples wrote:
>     >> I just built Commotion DR1.1 fresh from source. When running
>     >> "make", I got an error: "WARNING: your configuration is out of
>     >> sync. Please run make menuconfig, oldconfig or defconfig!". So I
>     >> ran make menuconfig, then saved without making any changes.
>     >
>     >> The resulting image has a problem where the plug interface takes
>     >> the IP address of 192.168.1.20 instead of generating a 102.x.x.x
>     >> address (and doesn't hand out DHCP leases). I am guessing this
>     >> has to do with changes in AA since we first tagged DR1.1. I will
>     >> look into this further after lunch, but just wanted to put it out
>     >> there in case anyone else would care to verify.
>     >
>     >> Dan
>     >
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>
>     When I pinned to the AA tagged stable release from April 24, the
>     problem went away. I think we should pin to this revision until we
>     figure out what is screwing things up:
>
>     svn co
>     svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/tags/attitude_adjustment_12.09/
>     <http://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/tags/attitude_adjustment_12.09/>
>
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We just pinned the openwrt source and packages to a known good version 
from ~April 24. But we'll have to figure out a way to test if updates 
to the OpenWRT source will break Commotion or not. But ideally, it 
would be nice if backports to a "stable" branch didn't break 
everything...

--
Dan Staples

Open Technology Institute
https://commotionwireless.net