'opkg -noaction upgrade' does not work as expected

[ChristW]

Steps to reproduce:

1) Run opkg update to re-load the list of updated packages
2) Run opkg -noaction upgrade and verofy that packages are being downloaded from the web

Expected behaviour:

• Getting a list of downloads

Reason:
Sometimes (often!) my Mac crashes when the FreeRunner? pulls lots of data via the internet connection. Copying (scp) from the Mac works better. I'd like to get a list of packages to download to manually copy them to the FR and 'opkg install' them.

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which opkg version do you run?

I don't understand what happened to your Neo when you opkg -noaction upgrade?

Is Neo crashes or your Mac crashes?

If it is your Mac crashes, perhaps you found a bug from Apple.
Maybe... routing issues?

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[ChristW]

opkg version 0.1.5

Nothing 'happens' to my Neo when I opkg -noaction upgrade, but I don't expect anything to 'happen' tp it either...

The Mac is the one that crashes, usually somewhere in natd. Since I use the AJZureus USB driver to connect the Neo to the Mac, Apple isn't going to do anything, I guess...

I 'only' wanted to report an expected behaviour from opkg, namely: Don't download the new ipk files from the internet, just list them.

HTH!

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oh okay, I see~
Thanks for reporting this.
I'll take a look of this.

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hmm... because opkg will need to check if the package is valid or not, so it will try to download. If opkg -test do not do this it will miss some use cases.

-test -noaction flag means it will not actually install/upgrading/uninstall to your system, however it will try to download files.

I will switch this to invalid.

Still thanks for your report.