github CI failures on the packages/openwrt-24.10 branch

[Noah Meyerhans]

There seems to be something wrong with the CI configuration as it
applies to the openwrt-24.10 branch in the packages repository.  All
builds associated with some fairly straightforward package updates are
failing for similar reasons that don't seem to have anything to do with
the actual package changes themselves.

https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/27896
https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/27944
https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/27945

I'm not at all familiar with how the CI build environment is configured,
so I figured I'd bring it up here in case this is obvious to somebody.
There have only been a couple of changes to the .github/workflows
directory in packages since May, and neither of them look like they'd
lead to this.

>From the pr 27944 logs, it seems that it's the package/index target
that's failing.  I do not encounter failures here when building locally.

2025-11-30T18:16:39.9585120Z ##[group]  make package/index
2025-11-30T18:16:40.4196375Z WARNING: Makefile 'package/kernel/linux/Makefile' has a dependency on 'eip197-mini-firmware', which does not exist
2025-11-30T18:16:40.4203797Z WARNING: Makefile 'package/kernel/linux/Makefile' has a dependency on 'airoha-en8811h-firmware', which does not exist
2025-11-30T18:16:40.4205133Z WARNING: Makefile 'package/kernel/linux/Makefile' has a dependency on 'r8169-firmware', which do
es not exist
2025-11-30T18:16:40.4206558Z WARNING: Makefile 'package/kernel/linux/Makefile' has a dependency on 'e100-firmware', which does not exist
2025-11-30T18:16:40.4208669Z WARNING: Makefile 'package/kernel/linux/Makefile' has a dependency on 'bnx2-firmware', which does not exist
2025-11-30T18:16:40.4209926Z WARNING: Makefile 'package/kernel/linux/Makefile' has a dependency on 'bnx2x-firmware', which does not exist
2025-11-30T18:16:40.4213797Z WARNING: Makefile 'package/kernel/linux/Makefile' has a dependency on 'ar3k-firmware', which does not exist
2025-11-30T18:16:40.4214807Z WARNING: Makefile 'package/kernel/linux/Makefile' has a dependency on 'mwifiex-sdio-firmware', which does not exist
2025-11-30T18:16:40.4219439Z WARNING: Makefile 'package/kernel/linux/Makefile' has a dependency on 'kmod-phy-bcm-ns-usb2', which does not exist
2025-11-30T18:16:40.4220775Z WARNING: Makefile 'package/kernel/linux/Makefile' has a dependency on 'edgeport-firmware', which does not exist
2025-11-30T18:16:40.4223987Z WARNING: Makefile 'package/kernel/linux/Makefile' has a dependency on 'r8152-firmware', which does not exist
2025-11-30T18:16:40.4225288Z WARNING: Makefile 'package/kernel/linux/Makefile' has a dependency on 'kmod-phy-bcm-ns-usb3', which does not exist
2025-11-30T18:16:40.4226874Z WARNING: Makefile 'package/kernel/linux/Makefile' has a dependency on 'amdgpu-firmware', which does not exist
2025-11-30T18:16:40.4228172Z WARNING: Makefile 'package/kernel/linux/Makefile' has a dependency on 'i915-firmware-dmc', which does not exist
2025-11-30T18:16:40.4229430Z WARNING: Makefile 'package/kernel/linux/Makefile' has a dependency on 'radeon-firmware', which does not exist
2025-11-30T18:16:40.6154290Z make[2]: Entering directory '/builder/scripts/config'
2025-11-30T18:16:40.6154832Z make[2]: 'conf' is up to date.
2025-11-30T18:16:40.6155269Z make[2]: Leaving directory '/builder/scripts/config'
2025-11-30T18:16:40.6785268Z tmp/.config-package.in:7:warning: ignoring type redefinition of 'PACKAGE_ca-bundle' from 'bool' to 'tristate'
2025-11-30T18:16:40.6786423Z tmp/.config-package.in:82:warning: ignoring type redefinition of 'PACKAGE_libc' from 'bool' to 'tristate'
2025-11-30T18:16:40.6787279Z tmp/.config-package.in:109:warning: ignoring type redefinition of 'PACKAGE_libgcc' from 'bool' to 'tristate'
2025-11-30T18:16:40.6787941Z tmp/.config-package.in:223:warning: ignoring type redefinition of 'PACKAGE_libpthread' from 'bool' to 'tristate'
2025-11-30T18:16:40.6788592Z tmp/.config-package.in:278:warning: ignoring type redefinition of 'PACKAGE_librt' from 'bool' to 'tristate'
2025-11-30T18:16:40.6797968Z tmp/.config-package.in:2935:warning: ignoring type redefinition of 'PACKAGE_libblkid' from 'bool' to 'tristate'
2025-11-30T18:16:40.6799198Z tmp/.config-package.in:3107:warning: ignoring type redefinition of 'PACKAGE_libsmartcols' from 'bool' to 'tristate'
2025-11-30T18:16:40.6800362Z tmp/.config-package.in:3125:warning: ignoring type redefinition of 'PACKAGE_libuuid' from 'bool' to 'tristate'
2025-11-30T18:16:40.6801545Z tmp/.config-package.in:3536:warning: ignoring type redefinition of 'PACKAGE_partx-utils' from 'bool' to 'tristate'
2025-11-30T18:16:40.6806541Z Config-build.in:1315:warning: defaults for choice values not supported
2025-11-30T18:16:40.6807042Z Config-build.in:1319:warning: defaults for choice values not supported
2025-11-30T18:16:40.6807493Z Config-build.in:1323:warning: defaults for choice values not supported
2025-11-30T18:16:40.6845698Z #
2025-11-30T18:16:40.6846155Z # No change to .config
2025-11-30T18:16:40.6846501Z #
2025-11-30T18:16:40.6909523Z  make[1] package/index
2025-11-30T18:16:57.6734802Z make -r package/index: build failed. Please re-run make with -j1 V=s or V=sc for a higher verbosity level to see what's going on
2025-11-30T18:16:57.6735825Z make: *** [/builder/include/toplevel.mk:226: package/index] Error 1
2025-11-30T18:16:57.6739282Z ##[endgroup]