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geekmaster · 05-12-2016, 06:05 PM

Okay, I am playing around in a qemu-arm-static chroot that combines the K1 tarballs, a gumstix angstrom (armv5te) rootfs, and the k3 optware rootfs image folks were playing around with here (with ipkg support). I updated /opt/etc/ipgk.conf to include the gumstix armv5te repository, but it redirects to https (as do many websites these days) and the wget in this environment is only http and ftp. So, I downloaded a static arm wget with https support here:
http://pogoplug.s3.amazonaws.com/wget

I just "relearned" that replacing a symlink to busybox with a standalone replacement does not work while working in a shell provided by that busybox. Busybox intercepts intrinsic (built-in) commands, ignoring the search path. I can call /usr/bin/wget myself, but the problem is that I cannot tell ipkg to do that. Now I need a shell that does not include wget, or that has wget with https support.

I remember fighting a similar wget problem in optware on the k3, where some folks hex-editted ipkg to resolve the problem (though I think I found a different solution, perhaps involving a subshell -- not sure, but it is in a post somewhere here).

I am *hopeful* that I can install gumstix arm5te packages (especially gcc).

Or perhaps knc1 is right and I am just wasting my time?

05-12-2016, 06:05 PM	#136
geekmaster Carpe diem, c'est la vie. Posts: 6,433 Karma: 10773670 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Multiverse 6627A Device: K1 to PW3	Okay, I am playing around in a qemu-arm-static chroot that combines the K1 tarballs, a gumstix angstrom (armv5te) rootfs, and the k3 optware rootfs image folks were playing around with here (with ipkg support). I updated /opt/etc/ipgk.conf to include the gumstix armv5te repository, but it redirects to https (as do many websites these days) and the wget in this environment is only http and ftp. So, I downloaded a static arm wget with https support here: http://pogoplug.s3.amazonaws.com/wget I just "relearned" that replacing a symlink to busybox with a standalone replacement does not work while working in a shell provided by that busybox. Busybox intercepts intrinsic (built-in) commands, ignoring the search path. I can call /usr/bin/wget myself, but the problem is that I cannot tell ipkg to do that. Now I need a shell that does not include wget, or that has wget with https support. I remember fighting a similar wget problem in optware on the k3, where some folks hex-editted ipkg to resolve the problem (though I think I found a different solution, perhaps involving a subshell -- not sure, but it is in a post somewhere here). I am hopeful that I can install gumstix arm5te packages (especially gcc). Or perhaps *knc1* is right and I am just wasting my time? Last edited by geekmaster; 05-12-2016 at 06:12 PM.