opkg fails to install manually downloaded packages

[Sven Roederer]

Am Donnerstag, 29. April 2021, 01:54:34 CEST schrieb Sven Roederer:
> 
> Using a freshly installed OpenWrt 21.02 fails to install a package that has
> been downloaded manually. I had seen this initially when using my own image
> where a package was missing. To fix I copied over with scp and wanted to
> install with 'opkg <package.ipk>'. It failed, complaining about incompatible
> arch. rebuilding my image via Imagebuilder made my image work.
> 
> Initially thought of some faulty config on my board, but was just testing
> with official build from downloads.openwrt.org and could confirm.
> 
> Here my console log (taken on TPLink WDR-3600):
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > OpenWrt 21.02.0-rc1, r16046-59980f7aaf
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > root at OpenWrt:~# cd /tmp
> > root at OpenWrt:/tmp# wget
> > https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.0-rc1/
> 
> packages/mips_24kc/base/wall_2.36.1-2_mips_24kc.ipk
> 
> > Downloading 'https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.0-rc1/packages/
> 
> mips_24kc/base/wall_2.36.1-2_mips_24kc.ipk'
> 
> > Connecting to 168.119.138.211:443
> > Writing to 'wall_2.36.1-2_mips_24kc.ipk'
> > wall_2.36.1-2_mips_2 100% |*******************************| 10770  
> > 0:00:00
> 
> ETA
> 
> > Download completed (10770 bytes)
> > root at OpenWrt:/tmp# opkg install /tmp/wall_2.36.1-2_mips_24kc.ipk
> > Unknown package 'wall'.
> > 
> > Collected errors:
> >  * pkg_hash_fetch_best_installation_candidate: Packages for wall found,
> >  but
> 
> incompatible with the architectures configured
> 
> >  * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package wall.
> 
> As far as I can see opkd config looks fine ...
> 
> > root at OpenWrt:/tmp# opkg print-architecture
> > arch all 1
> > arch noarch 1
> > arch mips_24kc 10
> 
> Any ideas?
> I did not check on master yet, but I think it's a blocker for 21.02 release.
> 

Just did a check on master, which shows the same behavior.