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<p>Hello,</p>
<p>The quick version: a repository (boot-wrapper-aarch64.git)
required for the default build of arm64 OpenWrt targets (default
configuration) on the latest version of trunk seems to have
disappeared from the Internet, and I'm unsure who to notify or how
to proceed. Furthermore, I can't seem to find anyone else
reporting this issue or even talking about it and I can't
understand why this isn't being reported anywhere, making me
paranoid that I somehow messed up (which has been known to happen)
or missed some announcement.<br>
</p>
<p>More detailed:<br>
</p>
<p>As of yesterday (Thursday, September 21 2016), I am unable to
build OpenWrt images for arm64 targets. My last successful build
(that I can verify) of arm64 images was September 8 (and I have a
root filesystem that I constructed for it on September 12, but I
don't remember if the configuration I used would have caused it to
encounter this issue). The build process fails when it attempts
to compile the boot-wrapper. According to the output, the reason
is:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>fatal: remote error: access denied or repository not exported:
/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/boot-wrapper-aarch64.git</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I searched Google for the repository and all of the links to the
one owned by cmarinas 404'd. Google's last cached version of the
page was September 9, but beyond that, I can't tell when exactly
the repository disappeared, or why for that matter. Furthermore,
I haven't seen anyone else report this problem. To make sure it
wasn't somehow something I had done, I asked a few other people to
see if they could reach the repo and I tried from multiple
networks with the same results, and then I cloned a fresh copy of
the OpenWrt buildroot (bleeding edge) repository, updated the
feeds, made sure I had the latest version, then started a build
for a default arm64 target. The result was the same failure at
the same point.</p>
<p>I tried to open a ticket on the issue tracker, but it kept
kicking it back as spam (incidentally, there's a thread on the
OpenWrt "Developers Only" forum where other users are reporting
the same thing). I made a post on the forum about this issue as
well, but had to remove all URLs because that too was being
reported as spam.</p>
<p>There are forks and mirrors of the repository out there. One of
them was just pushed on Monday, September 19, suggesting to me
that perhaps the repository migrated or changed ownership, but I'm
basing that entirely on speculation due to the circumstances; I
can't find a log or notes saying that's the case, but the last
commit to that repository was in 2013 which was when the last
commit to the missing one was made.</p>
<p>I probably have a local copy of the repo on my system somewhere,
and there are forks of it still available. I could probably fix
this issue by just manually changing the line in the boot-wrapper
Makefile to point to one of those instead, but I'm not entirely
sure that they're identical to the original. Plus, it doesn't fix
the problem for other users and it will probably interfere with
keeping my local copy in sync with the latest version.</p>
<p>Has anyone else encountered this? Am I totally missing something
obvious? I'm still relatively new to this, and I wouldn't be
surprised if that were the case, but I'd feel very silly. I know
it's an external repository used by more than just OpenWrt (it
comes up in regular buildroot and several guides on kernel
building direct people to the missing repository specifically), so
I was shy about reaching out like this, but I also think it might
be a relevant OpenWrt issue because we'd have to patch the
Makefile that contains that repository to whatever the current
working equivalent is.<br>
</p>
<p>Below is the output of the build of a default version from the
point where it attempts to make the target that fails (don't mind
my bizarre naming conventions, they're largely arbitrary and only
seen by me):</p>
<blockquote>
<p>mkdir -p
/home/alex/openwrt/experimental_builds/arm64/openwrt/build_dir/target-aarch64_armv8-a_musl-1.1.15/linux-arm64/tmp<br>
rm -rf
/home/alex/openwrt/experimental_builds/arm64/openwrt/build_dir/target-aarch64_armv8-a_musl-1.1.15/linux-arm64/linux-system.axf<br>
cp
/home/alex/openwrt/experimental_builds/arm64/openwrt/build_dir/target-aarch64_armv8-a_musl-1.1.15/linux-arm64/linux-4.4.14/arch/arm64/boot/Image
/home/alex/openwrt/experimental_builds/arm64/openwrt/build_dir/target-aarch64_armv8-a_musl-1.1.15/linux-arm64/Image<br>
export MAKEFLAGS= ;make -w -C boot-wrapper clean<br>
make[6]: Entering directory
'/home/alex/openwrt/experimental_builds/arm64/openwrt/target/linux/arm64/image/boot-wrapper'<br>
make[6]: Leaving directory
'/home/alex/openwrt/experimental_builds/arm64/openwrt/target/linux/arm64/image/boot-wrapper'<br>
export MAKEFLAGS= ;make -w -C boot-wrapper compile<br>
make[6]: Entering directory
'/home/alex/openwrt/experimental_builds/arm64/openwrt/target/linux/arm64/image/boot-wrapper'<br>
mkdir -p /home/alex/openwrt/experimental_builds/arm64/openwrt/dl<br>
SHELL= flock
/home/alex/openwrt/experimental_builds/arm64/openwrt/tmp/.aarch64-boot-wrapper-2013-01-10-c51dde817b5ed5b8f741b67ac51bd67bd87b4a2a.tar.gz.flock
-c ' echo "Checking out files from the git repository...";
mkdir -p
/home/alex/openwrt/experimental_builds/arm64/openwrt/tmp/dl
&& cd
/home/alex/openwrt/experimental_builds/arm64/openwrt/tmp/dl
&& rm -rf aarch64-boot-wrapper-2013-01-10 && [
\! -d aarch64-boot-wrapper-2013-01-10 ] && git clone
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/boot-wrapper-aarch64.git
aarch64-boot-wrapper-2013-01-10 && (cd
aarch64-boot-wrapper-2013-01-10 && git checkout
c51dde817b5ed5b8f741b67ac51bd67bd87b4a2a && git
submodule update --init --recursive) && echo "Packing
checkout..." && rm -rf
aarch64-boot-wrapper-2013-01-10/.git && tar czf
/home/alex/openwrt/experimental_builds/arm64/openwrt/tmp/dl/aarch64-boot-wrapper-2013-01-10-c51dde817b5ed5b8f741b67ac51bd67bd87b4a2a.tar.gz
aarch64-boot-wrapper-2013-01-10 && mv
/home/alex/openwrt/experimental_builds/arm64/openwrt/tmp/dl/aarch64-boot-wrapper-2013-01-10-c51dde817b5ed5b8f741b67ac51bd67bd87b4a2a.tar.gz
/home/alex/openwrt/experimental_builds/arm64/openwrt/dl/
&& rm -rf aarch64-boot-wrapper-2013-01-10; '<br>
Checking out files from the git repository...<br>
Cloning into 'aarch64-boot-wrapper-2013-01-10'...<br>
fatal: remote error: access denied or repository not exported:
/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/boot-wrapper-aarch64.git<br>
Makefile:38: recipe for target
'/home/alex/openwrt/experimental_builds/arm64/openwrt/dl/aarch64-boot-wrapper-2013-01-10-c51dde817b5ed5b8f741b67ac51bd67bd87b4a2a.tar.gz'
failed<br>
make[6]: ***
[/home/alex/openwrt/experimental_builds/arm64/openwrt/dl/aarch64-boot-wrapper-2013-01-10-c51dde817b5ed5b8f741b67ac51bd67bd87b4a2a.tar.gz]
Error 128<br>
make[6]: Leaving directory
'/home/alex/openwrt/experimental_builds/arm64/openwrt/target/linux/arm64/image/boot-wrapper'<br>
Makefile:46: recipe for target 'image_prepare' failed<br>
make[5]: *** [image_prepare] Error 2<br>
make[5]: Leaving directory
'/home/alex/openwrt/experimental_builds/arm64/openwrt/target/linux/arm64/image'<br>
Makefile:28: recipe for target 'install' failed<br>
make[4]: *** [install] Error 2<br>
make[4]: Leaving directory
'/home/alex/openwrt/experimental_builds/arm64/openwrt/target/linux/arm64'<br>
Makefile:13: recipe for target 'install' failed<br>
make[3]: *** [install] Error 2<br>
make[3]: Leaving directory
'/home/alex/openwrt/experimental_builds/arm64/openwrt/target/linux'<br>
target/Makefile:21: recipe for target 'target/linux/install'
failed<br>
make[2]: *** [target/linux/install] Error 2<br>
make[2]: Leaving directory
'/home/alex/openwrt/experimental_builds/arm64/openwrt'<br>
target/Makefile:17: recipe for target
'/home/alex/openwrt/experimental_builds/arm64/openwrt/staging_dir/target-aarch64_armv8-a_musl-1.1.15/stamp/.target_install'
failed<br>
make[1]: ***
[/home/alex/openwrt/experimental_builds/arm64/openwrt/staging_dir/target-aarch64_armv8-a_musl-1.1.15/stamp/.target_install]
Error 2<br>
make[1]: Leaving directory
'/home/alex/openwrt/experimental_builds/arm64/openwrt'<br>
/home/alex/openwrt/experimental_builds/arm64/openwrt/include/toplevel.mk:192:
recipe for target 'world' failed<br>
make: *** [world] Error 2</p>
</blockquote>
<p>My system is 64 bit Ubuntu 16.04</p>
<p>Steps to reproduce:<br>
</p>
<blockquote>
<ol>
<li>git clone <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt.git">https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt.git</a></li>
<li>cd openwrt</li>
<li>./scripts/feeds update -a; ./scripts/feeds install -a<br>
</li>
<li>make menuconfig</li>
<ol>
<li>Target System > ARMv8 multiplatform</li>
<li>save .config, exit</li>
</ol>
<li>make -j1 V=s 2>&1 | tee build.log</li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
Should I try the issue/bug tracker again?<br>
<br>
Thank you for your time, I'm at my wit's end here.<br>
<br>
-Alex
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