Entware-ng & Entware-3x merge!!!

[jtp10181]

I put mine in post-mount ages ago and haven't looked back. A loop made no sense when there was an event-driven script call for the entware device!

Me too...first thing I did after installing. Maybe we're missing something?

Me also, after reading this wiki article: https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki/USB-Disk-Check-at-Boot
I got around the AB solution issue by just removing everything it added except the comments from services-start and when AB does its check it thinks it is still OK. Seems to work better than when in the services-start.

 

[RMerlin]

@zyxmon, @ryzhov_al - a friend is asking if you have any up-to-date installation instructions for Synology? He's currently using Optware, I'm suggesting him to switch to Entware instead. The link we found on a Wiki simply points back to Github's repo.

 

[zyxmon]

@RMerlin - https://github.com/Entware/Entware/wiki/Install-on-Synology-NAS can used to install Entware. Installation script URL and installation folder should be adjusted to Entware. I think these are the best instructions for now.
There are also threads on Synology forum and on Russian Sinology forum on Entware installation.

 

[heysoundude]

Well that was a busy day for y'all yesterday, or so it seems from here...all hands on deck. You guys don't get paid enough. Thanks for everything

 

[RMerlin]

@RMerlin - https://github.com/Entware/Entware/wiki/Install-on-Synology-NAS can used to install Entware. Installation script URL and installation folder should be adjusted to Entware. I think these are the best instructions for now.
There are also threads on Synology forum and on Russian Sinology forum on Entware installation.

Thanks, he notified me this morning he got it up and running now using this guide.

@john9527 : can you send me a patch once you're confident in your setup change? I'll review them - one thing I was considering was to offer end-user the choice between a 32-bit armv7 or the 64-bit aarch64 repo for the RT-AC86U, as not everyone might want the 64-bit repo (if they rely on other precompiled binaries that are 32-bit).

 

[Odkrys]

fake-hwclock need a modification.

Reboot in shell is fine it has enough time for running services-stop so fake-hwclock successfully save current time to fake-hwclock.data.

But If I reboot using web-ui, rebooting start quite immediately so fake-hwclock fail to save the time on data.
This happen when someone run many packages through entware.

I copied S99fake-hwclock for temporary fixing.

 

[john9527]

Testing the new installer routine and found a potential bug.....

Previous installer would preserve the user path by including in the entware /etc/profile
export PATH=/opt/bin:/opt/sbin:$PATH

new installer hard codes the path to
export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/bin:/opt/sbin

This then ignores the nvram env_path var allowing for a user custom path

 

[RMerlin]

Any chance the server containing the install scripts might eventually support https? It would help protect against malicious redirection to an alternate server.

 

[zyxmon]

@john9527 - this PATH variable was introduced in Entware-ng installer. No change here. We will consider changing it.
@RMerlin - a good chance it will support https.

 

[thelonelycoder]

@john9527 - this PATH variable was introduced in Entware-ng installer. This is not changed. We will consider changing it.
@RMerlin - a good chance it will support https.

Please make the use of https optional, or else I would have to also change my scripts immediately. I will use https, but might not have the time to implement it right away when you add support of it.

 

[Protik]

The entware in my AC-68U is installed through AB-Solution. After seeing there is a 64-bit version of entware, I have a tickling of installing the 64-bit version. Now I have two questions and they are-

• Is there any benefit or problem for me to install the 64-bit version?
• Is there any way to convert my version to a 64-bit one? Or I have to get rid of my current one and install the 64-bit one?

 

[zyxmon]

Is there any way to convert my version to a 64-bit one? Or I have to get rid of my current one and install the 64-bit one?

1. There is no way to convert to 64 version.
2. Your AC-68U does not support 64bit AFAIK.

 

[thelonelycoder]

2. Your AC-68U does not support 64bit AFAIK.

Correct, latest beta firmware (384.4_beta2) for 68U returns:

user@RT-AC1900P:/tmp/home/root# uname -r
2.6.36.4brcmarm

 

[Protik]

1. There is no way to convert to 64 version.
2. Your AC-68U does not support 64bit AFAIK.

Thanks!

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[zyxmon]

Previous installer would preserve the user path by including in the entware /etc/profile
export PATH=/opt/bin:/opt/sbin:$PATH

Entware will use the same PATH as `prehistoric` Entware. One can edit /opt/etc/profile and set `CHECK_OPT_PATH=1` to avoid duplicates in PATH and to preserve previous /opt order if it was set by firmware. Todays commit -
https://github.com/Entware/rtndev/commit/3528e4864f7c473fd492294c64b42b0baa09c92e

 

[RMerlin]

The RT-AC86U and GT-AC5300 are the only Asus routers that currently use a 64-bit processor.

 

[atkinsom]

Just did the upgrade and everything went smooth including the transmission upgrade. However, whenever you reboot the router or restart the transmission services, transmission does a verification check of local data on each torrent. In the previous versions it never did this unless you asked to do so in the GUI interface. Has something changed with it's behavior or is this the new normal for transmission. I've also tried using the settings.json that came with this new version and no change. Thanks for any help.

EDIT: Found this excellent thread with the exact same symptoms that I was experiencing with transmission. A lot of good info and helped me get around the issue
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/transmission-with-extremely-high-memory-usage.43242/

 

[ligeza]

Is it possible to install it on stock ac86u firmware?

 

[Gingernut]

Is it possible to install it on stock ac86u firmware?

Look here https://www.snbforums.com/threads/using-entware-on-asus-gt-ac5300.43160/

 

[Quadcore]

@zyxmon
Unfortunately, after merge, package "mysql-server - 5.1.73-2" disappeared. Is it possible in the future to have "mysql server" package again? Thanks.