Package update: Entware-ng

[shv]

Additional changes to activate Entware-NG

• Change 2nd line of file /opt/etc/opkg.cfg to

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fw4: src/gz Mijzelf http://zyxel.ddnss.eu/Users/Mijzelf/Entware-ng/binaries/armv5 
fw5: src/gz Mijzelf http://zyxel.ddnss.eu/Users/Mijzelf/Entware-ng/binaries/armv7

• Install profile-hook package

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/opt/bin/opkg install profile-hook

• Reinstall opkg package to prevent segmentation fault of command opkg list

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/opt/bin/opkg install opkg

• Reboot NAS device

[shv]

Additional fixes of the Entware-NG web interface:

• Fix display of Packages in Entware-NG web interface

Edit the file /i-data/<your_PKG_installation_dir>/.PKG/Entware-ng/gui/Entware-ng/pkgcgi.cgi

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Change line ARCH=$( basename $(grep -v "^#" /opt/etc/opkg.conf | grep packages | awk '{print $3}' ) ) to
ARCH=` awk -F'\/' '/armv[57]$/ {print $NF}' /opt/etc/opkg.conf ) `

• Fix link to ffp stick

Edit the file /i-data/<your_PKG_installation_dir>/.PKG/Entware-ng/gui/Entware-ng/pkgcgi.cgi

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Change link http://downloads.zyxel.nas-central.org/Users/Mijzelf/Entware-ng/ to http://zyxel.ddnss.eu/Users/Mijzelf/Entware-ng/

[shv]

A new package is available in the test repo: https://zyxel.ddnss.eu/Users/Mijzelf/zy ... o/test/shv

For fw7 devices it is recommended to execute the following commands after package installation:

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opkg update
opkg upgrade
opkg remove profile-hook
opkg install profile-hook

[shv]

The package list in the web GUI isn't correct for armv7. It should be taken from https://bin.entware.net/armv7sf-k2.6/ instead of http://pkg.entware.net/binaries/armv7/.

[shv]

@Mijzelf , can you please test the updated Entware package? I have currently the problem that the profile-hook sometimes works and sometimes doesn't work. It seams that it depends on the order of installation. I used different commands after a new installation of the Entware package:

1. Installation of Entware package only: profile-hook works, 'opkg list' causes segmentation fault
2. Installation of Entware package and additionally 'opkg install opkg': profile-hook works
3. Installation of Entware package and additionally 'opkg install opkg'; 'opkg upgrade': profile-hook works
4. Installation of Entware package and additionally 'opkg upgrade': profile-hook doesnt work after reboot

Directly after installation it works fine. After reboot profile-hook doesn't work in certain cases. Random Tools was installed before Entware-ng.

Possibly we could add 'opkg install opkg'; 'opkg upgrade' to the installation script of Entware-ng for armv7 devices.

[Mijzelf]

The reason is in the logfile:

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admin@NAS520:/i-data/38aa86ff/.PKG/Entware-ng/opt/var/log$ cat Entware-ng.log
Opened logfile at Mon Aug 17 20:06:42 CEST 2026
Flushing memory buffer
    Starting up
Flushing done
[20:06:42] Create symlink /opt -> /i-data/38aa86ff/.PKG/Entware-ng/opt
[20:06:42] Execute /opt/etc/init.d/rc.unslung start
[20:06:42]     /opt/etc/init.d/rc.unslung: line 38: /opt/bin/find: not found
[20:06:42] Done /opt/etc/init.d/rc.unslung start
Closed logfile at Mon Aug 17 20:06:42 CEST 2026

For some reason rc.unslung uses /opt/bin/find, The package findutils is installed, but a symlink is lacking:

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ln -s ../libexec/find-gnu /opt/bin/find 

Don't know why that symlink isn't there.

> Random Tools was installed before Entware-ng.
Random Tools stays away from /opt, while Entware resides completely in /opt, so they should interact.
> Possibly we could add 'opkg install opkg'; 'opkg upgrade' to the installation script of Entware-ng for armv7 devices.
To upgrade it directly to a newer version? Why not change the installer to install the new version directly?

[shv]

I had to add a check for an existing but empty lasturl file to prevent a damaged content in ${PKG_DOWNLOAD_URL}:

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ExchangeDownloadUrl()
{
<------>local LASTURL="/tmp/.MetaRepository/tmp/lasturl"
<------>if [ -f ${LASTURL} && ! -s ${LASTURL} ] ; then
<------><------>local url=$(cat  /tmp/.MetaRepository/tmp/lasturl )
<------><------>sed -i "s|^PKG_DOWNLOAD_URL=http://zyxel.ddnss.eu/Users/Mijzelf/zypkg-repo/fw5|PKG_DOWNLOAD_URL=${url}|" ${PKG_ROOT}/etc/ini
<------>fi
}