packages/net/alfred, branch master

alfred: handle unreadable files in bat-hosts.lua

2026-08-18T06:39:34Z

get_interface_address() calls io.open() and dereferences the result without checking it. /sys/class/net does not contain interfaces only: with the bonding module loaded it also holds the plain file bonding_masters, which the `ls -1` in get_interfaces_names() returns and which has no address below it. io.open() then returns nil and the script dies with "attempt to index a nil value", so no bat-hosts data is published at all on such a node. Return nil when the file cannot be opened and skip those entries in the caller, which would otherwise index the interface table with nil. get_hostname() gets the same guard. Reported-by: openwrt-ai[bot] Signed-off-by: Josef Schlehofer Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5

alfred: add new package

2026-08-18T06:39:34Z

alfred is a user space daemon for distributing arbitrary local information (e.g. hostnames or vis data) over a batman-adv mesh network in a decentralized fashion via IPv6 link-local multicast. Moved from the openwrt/routing feed, as discussed in https://github.com/openwrt/routing/issues/184. The one deviation from the feed copy is SUBMENU:=Wireless, which the feed copy does not set at all: without it the package sits ungrouped at the top of the Network menu. Wireless keeps it next to mesh11sd and batctl, which move across with the same value. A dedicated Mesh submenu is the better home for all three and is worth adding once enough of the mesh packages have landed to justify it. Signed-off-by: Josef Schlehofer Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5