Re: Buildbot: mips_4kec packages architecture has failed since 23 days

[Felix Baumann]

Am 23. August 2025 17:24:16 MESZ schrieb Hannu Nyman <hannu.nyman at iki.fi>:
>mips_4kec packages architecture has consecutively failed at the packages builtbot since 23 days. (Last ok build on 30 July)
>
>The failure looks strange, almost like the architecture dir would have been deleted from the buildbot farm.
>Failure happens after the actual packages build, in the feeds.conf generation step:
>
>https://buildbot.openwrt.org/main/packages/#/builders/38/builds/293/steps/25/logs/stdio
>
>./scripts/feeds list -s -f > bin/packages/mips_4kec/feeds.conf
> in dir /builder/mips_4kec/build/sdk (timeout 1200 secs)
> watching logfiles {}
> argv: b'./scripts/feeds list -s -f > bin/packages/mips_4kec/feeds.conf'
> environment:
>  HOME=/builder
>  HOSTNAME=009499ad9abd
>  LANG=en_US.utf8
>PATH=/opt/venv/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
>  PWD=/builder/mips_4kec/build/sdk
>  SHLVL=1
> using PTY: False
>/bin/sh: 1: cannot create bin/packages/mips_4kec/feeds.conf: Directory nonexistent
>program finished with exit code 2
>elapsedTime=0.011390
>
>
>similar error at the signpack step:
>
>find bin/packages/mips_4kec/ -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 2 -type f -name sha256sums -print0 -or -name Packages -print0 -or -name packages.adb -print0 | xargs -0 tar -czf sign.tar.gz
>...
>find: ‘bin/packages/mips_4kec/’: No such file or directory
>tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
>
>
>
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Hi Hannu,

the last/only target to ever use 4kec is Realtek RTL838x, and it only used it for packages while its kernel was compiled for arch 34kc.
To save some space regarding toolchains etc. the developers switched the full target to 24kc on Juli 30th.
<https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/19117#issuecomment-3135352437>

I guess there is still some clean up that needs to be done but it's correct that those build jobs are failing. This arch is history unless another target shows up that requires it.

Regards
Felix Baumann / Djfe