Update to 6.24.3 is not working, because gitea-1.8-linux-arm-7 is not available

[maschiw]

ADMIN EDIT

Workaround: sed -i 's/arm-7/arm-6/' /DietPi/dietpi/dietpi-software

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Details:

• Date | Thu 4 Jul 11:50:44 BST 2019
• Bug report | N/A
• DietPi version | v6.24.3 (MichaIng/master)
• Img creator | DietPi Core Team
• Pre-image | Meveric
• SBC device | Odroid XU3/XU4/HC1/HC2 (armv7l) (index=11)
• Kernel version | #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 23 05:59:33 UTC 2018
• Distro | stretch (index=4)
• Command | Connection test: https://dl.gitea.io/gitea/1.8/gitea-1.8-linux-arm-7
• Exit code | 8
• Software title | DietPi-Software

Steps to reproduce:

I just called dietpi-update

Expected behaviour:

Update the system

Actual behaviour:

The check if https://dl.gitea.io/gitea/1.8/gitea-1.8-linux-arm-7 exists is failing,
because it is not there
The file gitea-1.8-linux-arm-7 is not listed at https://dl.gitea.io/gitea/1.8/

Additional logs:

Log file contents:
Spider mode enabled. Check if remote file exists.
--2019-07-04 11:50:18--  https://dl.gitea.io/gitea/1.8/gitea-1.8-linux-arm-7
Resolving dl.gitea.io (dl.gitea.io)... 104.27.142.155, 104.27.143.155, 2606:4700:30::681b:8f9b, ...
Connecting to dl.gitea.io (dl.gitea.io)|104.27.142.155|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
Remote file does not exist -- broken link!!!

[MichaIng]

@maschiw
Many thanks for your report.

You are right, somehow the ARMv7 binary is missing in all v1.8 version, ARMv5/6/64 i386/x64_64 are all there. No idea what happened there, if it's a temporary upload/sync issue or wanted: https://dl.gitea.io/gitea/
v1.7 and below releases have the ARMv7 binaries as expected.

Will check release notes and opened issues/reports about this.

[MichaIng]

Found: go-gitea/gitea#7222

• They have an unresolved issue with ARMv7 builds.
• But the ARMv6 binaries are backwards compatible, so can be used on ARMv7 systems as well.
• Here is the initial bug report for v1.8 and ARMv7: Using release binary on armv7 fails with segmentation fault go-gitea/gitea#6700

[MichaIng]

Workaround:

sed -i 's/arm-7/arm-6/' /DietPi/dietpi/dietpi-software

• Added for v6.26 with: a7eb923
• Changelog: 88318e3

[maschiw]

Thanks for your workaround. I implemented it and started dietpi-update again.
I expected a new update run. But dietpi-update said "No update required" and "Current version: v6.25.3".
Have I to use a special dietpi-update parameter like "dietpi-update -1"?
Or is it good to have a backup?

[MichaIng]

@maschiw
dietpi-update -1 will rerun the whole update. Since only the Gitea reinstall failed, reinstalling it is sufficient: dietpi-software reinstall 165

• Could you report back if this really works as expected? All related issues on Gitea site state that it does, but just for verification before I add this fix into the patch file to prevent others from running into the same update error.

Gitea is a very simple install, so for this a backup IMO is not required, but doesn't hurt as well.

[MichaIng]

Okay I merged the hotfix into the v6.25 patch file. Just verified that it is official aim/recommendation to use the ARMv6 binaries on ARMv7 from v1.8 on.

I mark this as closed.