How can I get old version of transmission for Entware?

[kouki]

If I use

opkg install transmission-web

It will automatically install 2.84 ver. for me. But this version was banned from my PT site.
So I need to downgrade my transmission.
Where can I get the old version? Plz help.

 

[ASAT]

Maybe is a way to edit /opt/bin/transmission-daemon, to change the string "2.84" to "1.92" or whatever?

 

[Calisro]

the source is here. You can download the tool chain and compile one. If I were set up i'd do it for you. Perhaps if you say which version, someone will compile an arm version for you.

http://download.transmissionbt.com/files/

It doesn't really need to be incorporated into entware. a binary will probably do.

 

[kouki]

the source is here. You can download the tool chain and compile one. If I were set up i'd do it for you. Perhaps if you say which version, someone will compile an arm version for you.

http://download.transmissionbt.com/files/

It doesn't really need to be incorporated into entware. a binary will probably do.

Thank you very much. I maybe need a 2.52 Ver.
But I am really not good at compiling.

 

[Calisro]

Which router?

 

[kouki]

Which router?

asus ac87u

 

[kouki]

I found an old version. But I cannot install it even typed --force-downgrade.
It still installed the newest version.
Please help!

 

[ryzhov_al]

You can take any version of transmission ever been compiled from here. See how.

Oops, it's for MIPS. ARM archive has no other versions of transmission, sorry.

 

[kouki]

You can take any version of transmission ever been compiled from here. See how.

Oops, it's for MIPS. ARM archive has no other versions of transmission, sorry.

Is, I noted this LOL. So is it no way to get an old ARM version?

 

[ryzhov_al]

I'm afraid no. Compilation is the only way.

 

[kouki]

I'm afraid no. Compilation is the only way.

Thanks for you reply!
Never did compilation before, I will try

 

[ASAT]

You might be able to get away with directly modifying the current version /opt/bin/transmission-daemon, using a binary editor. A quick and dirty hack might be easier than trying to gather all the dependent packages for compiling. How do they check the transmission version?

 

[kouki]

You might be able to get away with directly modifying the current version /opt/bin/transmission-daemon, using a binary editor. A quick and dirty hack might be easier than trying to gather all the dependent packages for compiling. How do they check the transmission version?

They found Transmission 2.84 was very buggy, so banned this version. I didn't get the exact bug data.
But edit /opt/bin/transmission-daemon won't be a good choice. Once they found I faked the BT client version, my account would be banned as well.
I spent whole day to find an old version for entware, even for outwore.
But what I could find just 2.84 ver.
Where the hell other versions are? Does they delete all the old version once they get a new one???

So my friend, who can help me? I cannot compile one by myself.

 

[ASAT]

who can help me? I cannot compile one by myself.

The OpenWrt packages pulls the Transmission source code from this place.
http://download-origin.transmissionbt.com/files/

Use the toolchain included with OpenWRT for ARMv7.
You could try to update the Makefile here:
https://github.com/zyxmon/openwrt-packages/blob/master/net/transmission/Makefile
Change these variables:
PKG_VERSION:=2.52
PKG_RELEASE:=1
PKG_MD5SUM:={TODO}
make package/transmission/compile -j1 V=s

It will have some dependent packages?

 

[kouki]

The OpenWrt packages pulls the Transmission source code from this place.
http://download-origin.transmissionbt.com/files/

Use the toolchain included with OpenWRT for ARMv7.
You could try to update the Makefile here:
https://github.com/zyxmon/openwrt-packages/blob/master/net/transmission/Makefile
Change these variables:
PKG_VERSION:=2.52
PKG_RELEASE:=1
PKG_MD5SUM:={TODO}
make package/transmission/compile -j1 V=s

It will have some dependent packages?

It gave me this error message.

root@kouki:~/openwrt# make package/transmission/compile -j1 V=s
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/openwrt'
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/openwrt/package/libs/toolchain'
mkdir -p /root/openwrt/bin/ar71xx/packages /root/openwrt/build_dir/target-mips_34kc_musl-1.1.10/toolchain/ipkg-ar71xx/libgcc/CONTROL /root/openwrt/staging_dir/target-mips_34kc_musl-1.1.10/pkginfo
install -d -m0755 /root/openwrt/build_dir/target-mips_34kc_musl-1.1.10/toolchain/ipkg-ar71xx/libgcc/lib
cp -fpR /root/openwrt/staging_dir/toolchain-mips_34kc_gcc-4.8-linaro_musl-1.1.10/lib/libgcc_s.so.* /root/openwrt/build_dir/target-mips_34kc_musl-1.1.10/toolchain/ipkg-ar71xx/libgcc/lib/
cp: cannot stat `/root/openwrt/staging_dir/toolchain-mips_34kc_gcc-4.8-linaro_musl-1.1.10/lib/libgcc_s.so.*': No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [/root/openwrt/bin/ar71xx/packages/base/libgcc_unknown-1_ar71xx.ipk] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/openwrt/package/libs/toolchain'
make[1]: *** [package/libs/toolchain/compile] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/openwrt'
make: *** [package/transmission/compile] Error 2

 

[ASAT]

It gave me this error message about MIPS.

Here is the Wiki that taught me how:

How to add a new package or rebuild the feed.
https://github.com/Entware/entware/wiki/How-to-add-a-new-package-or-rebuild-the-feed

However, the Entware project is a "Mips only" Buildroot environment. You may skip the step titled, "git clone https://github.com/Entware/entware.git", because it will not work for your ARMv7 router.

Instead, you need an ARMv7 Buildroot environment, this way:
cd
git clone https://github.com/zyxmon/entware-arm.git
cd entware-arm
make

Great, now you have a ARMv7 cross-compiler and tools to build Entware packages for the RT-AC68U router and other ARMv7 relatives.

Now, build the Entware packages this way:
cd ~/openwrt_trunk
make package/transmission/compile -j1 V=s

 

[kouki]

Here is the Wiki that taught me how:

How to add a new package or rebuild the feed.
https://github.com/Entware/entware/wiki/How-to-add-a-new-package-or-rebuild-the-feed

However, the Entware project is a "Mips only" Buildroot environment. You may skip the step titled, "git clone https://github.com/Entware/entware.git", because it will not work for your ARMv7 router.

Instead, you need an ARMv7 Buildroot environment, this way:
cd
git clone https://github.com/zyxmon/entware-arm.git
cd entware-arm
make

Great, now you have a ARMv7 cross-compiler and tools to build Entware packages for the RT-AC68U router and other ARMv7 relatives.

Now, build the Entware packages this way:
cd ~/openwrt_trunk
make package/transmission/compile -j1 V=s

I cannot find /openwrt_trunk. How can I get this dir?
I tried all the day doing this. But failed all the time. I am almost want to give up.
If you can compile one for me, it will be greatly appreciated.

 

[ASAT]

How can I get this 'openwrt_trunk' dir?

On Linux, these commands are equivalent. Any of them will change your current directory to the current user home directory.

cd
cd ~
cd $HOME

Now try this. Running 'make' will build the ARM toolchain and create the openwrt_trunk directory in your home directory. If you can't get this piece to work, the problem is with your Linux build environment.

cd
git clone https://github.com/zyxmon/entware-arm.git
cd entware-arm
make

 

[kouki]

On Linux, these commands are equivalent. Any of them will change your current directory to the current user home directory.

cd
cd ~
cd $HOME

Now try this. Running 'make' will build the ARM toolchain and create the openwrt_trunk directory in your home directory. If you can't get this piece to work, the problem is with your Linux build environment.

cd
git clone https://github.com/zyxmon/entware-arm.git
cd entware-arm
make

Thanks for the patient reply! I have successfully finish build the environment.
And then, when I want to do de compile, I got this:

make[4]: Entering directory `/home/parallels/openwrt_trunk/build_dir/target-arm-openwrt-linux-gnueabi/transmission-2.52/libtransmission'
  CC       announcer.o
  CC       announcer-http.o
  CC       announcer-udp.o
  CC       bandwidth.o
  CC       bencode.o
  CC       bitfield.o
  CC       blocklist.o
  CC       cache.o
  CC       clients.o
  CC       completion.o
  CC       ConvertUTF.o
  CC       crypto.o
  CC       fdlimit.o
In file included from /home/parallels/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/sysroot/usr/include/bits/fcntl.h:54:0,
                 from /home/parallels/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/sysroot/usr/include/fcntl.h:35,
                 from fdlimit.c:41:
/home/parallels/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/sysroot/usr/include/bits/fcntl-linux.h:400:12: error: conflicting types for 'fallocate64'
extern int fallocate64 (int __fd, int __mode, __off64_t __offset,
            ^
fdlimit.c:30:14: note: previous declaration of 'fallocate64' was here
   extern int fallocate64( int fd, int mode, uint64_t offset, uint64_t len );
              ^
make[4]: *** [fdlimit.o] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/parallels/openwrt_trunk/build_dir/target-arm-openwrt-linux-gnueabi/transmission-2.52/libtransmission'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/parallels/openwrt_trunk/build_dir/target-arm-openwrt-linux-gnueabi/transmission-2.52'
make[2]: *** [/home/parallels/openwrt_trunk/build_dir/target-arm-openwrt-linux-gnueabi/transmission-2.52/.built] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/parallels/openwrt_trunk/feeds/packages/net/transmission'
make[1]: *** [package/feeds/packages/transmission/compile] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/parallels/openwrt_trunk'
make: *** [package/transmission/compile] Error 2

Do you know why this error shows?
I almostly think it will success.

 

[kouki]

Thanks for the patient reply! I have successfully finish build the environment.
And then, when I want to do de compile, I got this:

make[4]: Entering directory `/home/parallels/openwrt_trunk/build_dir/target-arm-openwrt-linux-gnueabi/transmission-2.52/libtransmission'
  CC       announcer.o
  CC       announcer-http.o
  CC       announcer-udp.o
  CC       bandwidth.o
  CC       bencode.o
  CC       bitfield.o
  CC       blocklist.o
  CC       cache.o
  CC       clients.o
  CC       completion.o
  CC       ConvertUTF.o
  CC       crypto.o
  CC       fdlimit.o
In file included from /home/parallels/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/sysroot/usr/include/bits/fcntl.h:54:0,
                 from /home/parallels/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/sysroot/usr/include/fcntl.h:35,
                 from fdlimit.c:41:
/home/parallels/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/sysroot/usr/include/bits/fcntl-linux.h:400:12: error: conflicting types for 'fallocate64'
extern int fallocate64 (int __fd, int __mode, __off64_t __offset,
            ^
fdlimit.c:30:14: note: previous declaration of 'fallocate64' was here
   extern int fallocate64( int fd, int mode, uint64_t offset, uint64_t len );
              ^
make[4]: *** [fdlimit.o] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/parallels/openwrt_trunk/build_dir/target-arm-openwrt-linux-gnueabi/transmission-2.52/libtransmission'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/parallels/openwrt_trunk/build_dir/target-arm-openwrt-linux-gnueabi/transmission-2.52'
make[2]: *** [/home/parallels/openwrt_trunk/build_dir/target-arm-openwrt-linux-gnueabi/transmission-2.52/.built] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/parallels/openwrt_trunk/feeds/packages/net/transmission'
make[1]: *** [package/feeds/packages/transmission/compile] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/parallels/openwrt_trunk'
make: *** [package/transmission/compile] Error 2

Do you know why this error shows?
I almostly think it will success.

I succeed! There is something wrong with 010_libtransmission_fallocate64_eglibc.patch, I found the way to deal with from this post. https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/1088

Thank you so much ASAT, my friend. Thank you for you patient answer. Have a nice day!