Include opkg on the generated OS image about os HOT 7 CLOSED

Look at issue 24/258632478 how to include unpacked third-party builds in the image.

You soon will need a bigger image size: issue 24/258267150

issue 24/258638420 plays with copying the whole bin/packages directory into the bin/apps directory which will make it land in /packages in the generated image.

Still an ugly hack but helps to get started now/somehow.

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I think we should create a make target in third-party that would build opkg+dependencies (and maybe dropbear or openssh?), and then run opkg-extract-data to install those packages into x86dbg/bin/apps.

The new make target could depend on the tools that it needs, and then call a new script in third-party/build with the packages as its arguments to do the extraction.

Anybody interested in tackling that?

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@evangreen Just to let you know that I am currently tackling this as per your makefile/script suggestion. I'll let you know when I'm done.

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@evangreen +1 for this. and yes openssh will be useful too

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Check opkg-utils/opkg-extract-data ... being "cross running" it can't run package pre/post install scripts. Adding complex packages this way probably is not a good idea.

gzip, opgk, tar, wget and their dependencies probably is the barest minimum to install. Every other stuff can be included as unpacked packages or even got from elsewhere (USB, net, ...).

An editor may be nice too but including nano-*.ipk as is or other editors sure would be good enough.

openssh sure is a member of the "too complex" group.

Are you planning to build the dependencies list from bin/Packages previously built by opkg-make-index?

Update: opkg-utils has it...

# ./opkg-show-deps -p /src/x86dbg/bin/packages/Packages opkg
tar
libiconv
ca-certificates
libgcc
opkg
gzip
wget
libpcre
libopenssl

Happy(?) End.

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I just pushed some changes to third-party to do this. You can now run "make install-minimal" in third-party, which will build+extract opkg and Dropbear, and then manually patch up the remaining configuration needed by Dropbear. You'll need to pull the latest from "os" this evening as well.

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This a great and useful new feature. I tried implementing this earlier, but then stalled for some reason related to make. I'll take the chance to see how you tackled it.

I'm closing this one.

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