otor, I must admit I appreciate your perseverance. But I have to restate that I think you are expecting the gl-inet out-of-the-box firmware to run smoothly in cases that were not core to gl-inet's mission. You may have found a bug, but not one that too many people feel is worthy of much interest (possibly including those who work for gl-inet, but I won't speak for them.)
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You can take great pleasure in knowing that the jump to/from the gl-inet OEM software to pure openwrt is one of the easiest around.
Probably. The GL.iNet GUI does contain a lot of empty space; links to documentation that doesn't exist and the like. But this has certainly been worthwhile for me; I've learned much more than I would have if things worked correctly (hey - maybe those errors were inserted as teaching tools
And I am nearly done with this anyway. My curiosity demands that I check Luci's behavior on package Installs in the OpenWRT distribution, and if it fails as the GL.iNet software does, then I'll submit a bug report. It'll be a few days (maybe longer) before I get another opportunity to work this.
Thanks for the feedback.