Installing openwrt diffutils package

[agrohe21]

I see in opkg.confg, we have src/gz openwrt_18.06.5_packages http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/1 ... 3/packages

and diffutils is in that directory. Why would diffutils not install and/or how can we install diffutils with Gargoyle 1.12 on WRT32x?

[Lantis]

Change the src url to HTTPS might fix it.

[agrohe21]

That did the trick. thx

[agrohe21]

Well, it appears to install but no diff in /usr/bin. there is a diff3 but that relies on diff also.

Any other ideas?

[RomanHK]

Well, it appears to install but no diff in /usr/bin. there is a diff3 but that relies on diff also.

Any other ideas?

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gpkg update && gpkg install diffutils

and it should be there.

EDIT:
diff is a link. Refers to /usr/bin/gnu-diff

[agrohe21]

thanks. the install worked but the link was not made.

adding my own sym link worked.

[marcinkk]

The same problem on Gargoyle 1.14. Installed on x86_64.

Package diffutils installed, but no diff command available.
Corrected by making symlink manually:

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ln -s /usr/libexec/diff-gnu diff

BTW: In older version of Gargoyle (not on x86_64) I installed opkg (opkg install opkg). It has more functions than gpkg, for example listing files of installed package. I've tried the same on 1.14. Installation was successful, but when I tried to make opkg update then I saw only "Segmentation fault".

[Lantis]

I have a fix for the opkg segfault.
I will look at the lack of symbolic link for diff. I know why it occurs, I just don't know if I want to fix it.

[Lantis]

I took the opportunity to fix this (in future versions).
https://github.com/ericpaulbishop/gargo ... 07d8767635