[ptxdist] Source for opkg, opkg-utils, downloadlinks are broken

[ptxdist] Source for opkg, opkg-utils, downloadlinks are broken

[Andreas Helmcke]

Hello,

I have problems finding a working source for opkg-utils.

As far as I can tell git.yoctoproject.org killed off their snapshot functionality again. This time also for .tar.gz.

Trying to fetch snapshots result in 
  Unsupported snapshot format: opkg-utils-0.7.0.tar.gz

For opkg tarballs still can be found at: 
  https://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/opkg/ 
so opkg.make can be fixed by changing the download url.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work for opkg-utils, since there are no tarballs for opkg-utils at https://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/.

I tried to switch to git but I do not know how to get it working with opkg-utils.

The easy way with 
 HOST_OPKG_UTILS_URL := https://git.yoctoproject.org/opkg-utils;tag=$(HOST_OPKG_UTILS_VERSION)

doesn't work, because ptdist doesn't recognize that it's an URL to a Git repository because it does not end with .git.

>From https://ptxdist.de/doc/ref_make_variables.html:

<PKG>_URL
....
    Git URLs must either start with ‘git://’ or end with ‘.git’. They have a mandatory tag=<tagname> option.

What is the best way to solve the problem?


Andreas

Re: [ptxdist] Source for opkg, opkg-utils, downloadlinks are broken

[Michael Olbrich]

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 07:31:23PM +0200, Andreas Helmcke wrote:
> I have problems finding a working source for opkg-utils.
> 
> As far as I can tell git.yoctoproject.org killed off their snapshot functionality again. This time also for .tar.gz.

Right. Probably a anti AI crawler action :-/.

> Trying to fetch snapshots result in 
>   Unsupported snapshot format: opkg-utils-0.7.0.tar.gz
> 
> For opkg tarballs still can be found at: 
>   https://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/opkg/ 
> so opkg.make can be fixed by changing the download url.
> 
> Unfortunately, this doesn't work for opkg-utils, since there are no tarballs for opkg-utils at https://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/.
> 
> I tried to switch to git but I do not know how to get it working with opkg-utils.
> 
> The easy way with 
>  HOST_OPKG_UTILS_URL := https://git.yoctoproject.org/opkg-utils;tag=$(HOST_OPKG_UTILS_VERSION)
> 
> doesn't work, because ptdist doesn't recognize that it's an URL to a Git repository because it does not end with .git.
> 
> >From https://ptxdist.de/doc/ref_make_variables.html:
> 
> <PKG>_URL
> ....
>     Git URLs must either start with ‘git://’ or end with ‘.git’. They have a mandatory tag=<tagname> option.
> 
> What is the best way to solve the problem?

As Christian Melki showed with his patches, you can use 'git+https://' to
tell PTXdist that this is a git URL. We should add that to the
documentation.

In general, for most (if not all) git servers, it is possible to just add
the '.git' suffix. It will be ignored by the server. So this should work as
well:

HOST_OPKG_UTILS_URL := https://git.yoctoproject.org/opkg-utils.git;tag=$(HOST_OPKG_UTILS_VERSION)

Michael

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