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Johnathan Corgan d1b8a725ac Build working OpenWrt packages from the SDK feed Makefile
OpenWrt scans every package Makefile with DUMP=1 before it builds
anything, and that scan does not read the target config, so ARCH is
empty there. The unsupported-architecture error therefore fired on every
scan, the package's metadata came out empty, and make package/fips/compile
in the SDK built nothing at all. The error now applies only outside the
scan.

The SDK feed Makefile also declared no postinst, prerm or conffiles, so a
package built from it ran only OpenWrt's generated scripts. Their
default_postinst enables every init script a package ships on a fresh
install and starts every one on each install and upgrade, so such a
package enabled and started fips-gateway on a fresh install, started a
gateway the operator had disabled on every upgrade, and under opkg
replaced an edited fips.yaml. The Makefile now reads its postinst and
prerm bodies from scripts/, the same files build-ipk.sh and build-apk.sh
install, and lists fips.yaml as a conffile. Because the generated postinst
runs the package's body before the enable-and-start loop under opkg and
after it under apk, a new preinst, used only by the Makefile, leaves a
one-time hold in /var/run unless the gateway is enabled, and the gateway's
start_service, finding the hold, removes it, disables the service and
starts nothing. Under apk, where an upgrade runs no script of the old
package, the preinst also stops the services and leaves the upgrade
marker, as the old prerm does under opkg. The marker stays in /tmp,
because the prerm of an installed 0.5.2 package writes it there. The
prerm recognises an upgrade from PKG_UPGRADE as well as from its first
argument, since OpenWrt's default_prerm passes the script path first, and
the postinst clears the hold before re-enabling the gateway after an
upgrade from a package whose prerm disabled it.

An image build runs package scripts on the build host with IPKG_INSTROOT
naming the image root, so the preinst, postinst and prerm now do nothing
when it is set, rather than enabling and starting services on the host
and writing into its /tmp. The README tells image builders to pass
DISABLED_SERVICES=fips-gateway to keep the gateway off, and drops the
caveat that SDK builds lack the scripts.

Built in the openwrt/sdk 24.10.8 (ipk) and 25.12.5 (apk) images and
installed, upgraded and removed with the real opkg and apk in the
matching rootfs images: a fresh install leaves the gateway disabled and
stopped, an upgrade keeps it disabled or enabled as it was, and an
edited fips.yaml survives. A new scenario runs the same flows under ash
in local and GitHub CI and checks the scripts touch nothing on a build
host, and package-test.sh checks the Makefile names the scripts and the
conffile.
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