[Cerowrt-users] Missing packages in CeroWrt repository

[Paul Tow]

The IPv6 comment was from February 2009. Nginx has added IPv6 since then.

On 07/31/2014 07:48 AM, R. wrote:
>
> Great post, Paul. Looks like nginx is indeed the better option in 
> terms of performance and stability. Though, going through your links, 
> I noticed this: "Lighttpd has had support for IPv6 for a long time. 
> IPv6 support for nginx is in the 
> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.nginx.english/9979/focus=9989>works".
>
> I suppose the devs might have a better answer to provide.
>
> On Jul 31, 2014 4:34 AM, "Paul Tow" <macskeeball at gmail.com 
> <mailto:macskeeball at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I installed CeroWrt two days ago and have noticed that some
>     packages are missing from its repository. Specifically, nginx,
>     rtorrent, tmux, and screen are in the official OpenWrt trunk
>     repository for ar71xx (
>     http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/ar71xx/packages/ ),
>     but not in the CeroWrt repository. Why is this?
>
>     Is it possible for me to list multiple repositories in
>     /etc/opkg.conf, and somehow specify their priority? Then I could
>     set it to prefer packages from the CeroWrt repository, but still
>     have access to packages that are only in the official OpenWrt
>     repository. The opkg page on the OpenWrt Wiki (
>     http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/techref/opkg?s[]=etc&s[]=opkg&s[]=conf#configuration
>     ) doesn't make it clear if this kind of setup is possible.
>
>     Speaking of nginx, I've read that it uses less CPU and RAM than
>     lighttpd and is more actively developed, so I'm curious why
>     CeroWrt's developers chose lighttpd instead. Does nginx have a
>     problem or a lack of needed functionality, or was it not considered?
>
>     http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Web_Server_Performance_Comparison
>     http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/lighttpd_vs_nginx
>     http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/http.nginx
>     http://nginx.org/en/
>
>     CeroWrt is a great project and I appreciate the work its
>     developers do. Thank you!
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