Install OpenWRT kmod-usb-serial-ftdi package, tmux, screen

[1am]

Hello,

I'm trying to add few standard packages from OpenWRT package repository and I see that they are being downloaded into packages directory but when I try running cooker with modification to shoe menuconfig instead of defconfig I can't select or find them. What is the want to add the following:

• kmod-usb-serial-ftdi
• tmux
• screen

I don't get the fill cooker flow yet, could someone please help me out with it? I've added my own custom repository and packages without problems but these are proving to be more difficult.

[aparcar]

how do you add them? You could for instance extend the flavors.conf file

[1am]

I've added my own flavor in flavors.conf.local

lime_my_flavor="lime-full lime-app MyApp my-app-2 screen tmux kmod-usb-serial-ftdi -dnsmasq -libudev-fbsd"

Afterwards I build everything by:

COOKER_TARGET=ar71xx/generic
COOKER_PROFILE=carambola2
COOKER_FLAVOR=lime_my_flavor

# Optionally when feeds need update
# ./cooker -f --force

./cooker \
  -b ${COOKER_TARGET}

./cooker \
  -c ${COOKER_TARGET} \
  --profile=${COOKER_PROFILE} \
  --flavor=${COOKER_FLAVOR}

"MyApp" and "my-app-2" from custom repository (added proper entry to feeds.conf.default.local) are visible, others aren't. Also resulting build contains my apps but not the other, standard packages.

[1am]

Maybe there is some blacklist for modules? The thing I can't find is where these modules are removed as clearly they're downloaded to local feeds/packages folder. I don't see why a custom repo with packages is working and the OpenWRT ones aren't.

[aparcar]

I think feeds.conf.default.local is nowhere checked in the cooker script, did you changed it in the options file?

[1am]

It works. I think this part checks for feeds.cond.default.local https://github.com/libremesh/lime-sdk/blob/master/cooker#L267 I've followed https://github.com/libremesh/lime-sdk#add-your-own-feed-repository when getting started.

My feeds.cond.default.local is a copy of https://github.com/libremesh/lime-sdk/blob/master/feeds.conf.default with one additional line at the end which points to my repo.

And the thing is my repo works well while some packages from https://github.com/libremesh/lime-sdk/blob/master/feeds.conf.default#L2 are not selectable, like https://git.openwrt.org/?p=feed/packages.git;a=tree;f=utils/tmux;h=3ea84b4b84267b57420aa2a070228e03191214d7;hb=HEAD for instance.

[1am]

Does anyone know cooker well enough to be able to determine why the standard packages are being removed and don't make it to the target image?

[aparcar]

I think feeds.conf.default.local is nowhere checked in the cooker script, did you changed it in the options file?

Sorry this was completely wrong, I meant to write flavors.conf.local, which isn't even related but I initially misread your questions.

So you add packages to flavor but don't add the --remote parameter, thereby the packages are searched locally. However, the cooker -b doesn't know you have added special packages via flavors and rely on the standard config in libremesh.sdk.config.

You can manually add your extra packages by adding lines like CONFIG_PACKAGE_tmux=m, however that's no fun so I fixed that in the development branch, feel free to try that. You can edit in options.conf extra packages you want to compile.

Please test the development branch if it works for you, would be happy to get some feedback.

[1am]

Hi,

Thank you for your reply.

I've tried working on cooker checked out from development branch and adapted my build script along with the options. The result is that it's now failing on my custom packages again so probably missed something? Didn't yet dig through the changes between development and master branches

My build script

---

./cooker -f --force

./cooker \
  -b ${COOKER_TARGET} \
  --remote

./cooker \
  -c ${COOKER_TARGET} \
  --profile=${COOKER_PROFILE} \
  --flavor=${COOKER_FLAVOR} \
  --remote

My options.conf.local

Changed sdk_install_packages to sdk_compile_packages

sdk_compile_packages="libustream-openssl firewall screen tmux kmod-usb-serial-ftdi MyApp my-app-2"

[1am]

What eventually seemed to do the job is the following flags

/cooker \
  -b ${COOKER_TARGET} \
  --force-local

./cooker \
  -c ${COOKER_TARGET} \
  --profile=${COOKER_PROFILE} \
  --flavor=${COOKER_FLAVOR} \
  --extra-pkg=libustream-openssl firewall screen tmux kmod-usb-serial-ftdi MyApp my-app-2

I'm not sure if it was --force-local or specyfying the --extra-pkg list but the good thing is that after quick testing it seemed to inclide all the required packages! :)

[aparcar]

Glad it's fixed, sorry for not responding I have currently no build environment to test it meyself