Solved: opkg Updating Incorrectly

[alienheartbeat]

running Gargoyle 1.5.10 in a wndr-3800,
clean install from new factory firmware.

I am trying to install my first package.
Have used apt-get for years so am ok with the basics.

But when I check my package list -opkg list- after running -opkg update-, the only difference is that the packages now all have detailed descriptions, but the packages that were not there before running -opkg update- are still not there. eg nano.

A bug?

My opkg.conf is the standard one and looks ok:

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src/gz attitude_adjustment http://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_adjustment/12.09/ar71xx/generic/packages
src/gz gargoyle http://www.gargoyle-router.com/packages/gargoyle-1.5.10/ar71xx
dest root /
dest ram /tmp
dest plugin_root /plugin_root
lists_dir ext /var/opkg-lists
option overlay_root /overlay

As a result of this mis-updating when I try:

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	opkg update
	opkg install nano

the result is

ERROR: No package named nano found, try updating your package lists

which of course I just did.

any solutions?

[alienheartbeat]

Today I tried:

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   gpkg update

and it worked properly.
opkg update should have worked as it appears to be just a symlink to gpkg.

So either:
a. a script somewhere knows if it is being called by opkg instead of gpkg, and downs tools.
b. Someone else noticed this problem and it has been fixed.
c. the electrons in my router have more positive kharma than yesterday.

Marking solved.