Openwrt 18.06 ubuntu 20.04

[chmorgan]

Upgrade the image from ubuntu 18.06 to 20.04 so newer packages are available when building packages.

Hi @greenbreakfast. I'm not sure if this makes sense to merge in without more testing, or maybe not at all, I'll be testing more here to see how it builds packages, but a minimal build does complete successfully here. I'll be trying building and running some packages.

[greenbreakfast]

Hi @chmorgan, I'm hesitant to merge these commits in.
What benefit do we get from moving the dockerfile up to ubuntu 20.04?

And am I correct in understanding the kernel patch removal is because of the kernel changes in ubuntu 20.04?
If so, that's cause for concern since it might mean a cascade of other things to debug because of the OS change.

The build system is working well at the moment, I'm leaning towards "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"

If you need these changes for something specific, you're welcome to make a fork of the repo and make these changes in the fork. It should be easy to keep up with this repo going forward if those are the only changes.

[chmorgan]

Bah. my comment was lost when I changed windows.

I was looking to update because a bunch of npm libraries require versions of node newer than that in 18.06.

Working the other way, should I instead be using 21.02? It doesn't look like anyone has setup a docker file for this branch but I could do that and test to see how it might work. Is there a plan to release a 21.02 based system when 21.02 is officially released?