support adding third party package using package link

[ghost]

Please consider support building third party package using repo link

[efahl]

The basic pieces are in the server code, it's just not fleshed out, and the new setup.sh based snapshot scheme breaks it completely...

I'm looking at making it work, do you have any specific 3rd party repos in mind that you could post so I can test against them? Probably need the keys, too, so pretty much everything you've got in /etc/opkg/ (or /etc/apk/ if you're on snapshots).

[efahl]

The ASU server doesn't do any building or compilation of packages, it will need a link to a standard opkg (or apk as appropriate) package repo, like https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/packages-24.10/mips_24kc/packages/. This feed repo must contain the package index, signature and architecture-specific packages in .ipk/.apk format.

The ASU server is simply handing off a list of package names to the image builder, which then uses the bundled package manager to read the feeds.conf containing the link to that repo to resolve and install all of the desired packages.

[ghost]

@efahl Can i simply provide a single ipk file link?

[efahl]

No, that's not a capability offered by the image builders. It would require a significant rework of the build system outside of the ASU server to implement.

[ghost]

Ok. Forget about that.

I changed the issue to be "provide a link to package repo. "
That's something to be implemented, right?

[efahl]

Since image builder can't install packages that are outside of a package feed, the only supported mechanism in the ASU server will be by supplying a feed file that contains something like

src/gz openwrt_telephony https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10-SNAPSHOT/packages/x86_64/telephony

and then you'll be able to add a package from that feed, like asterisk or whatever the feed supplies.

This is the same thing you'd do on the device itself, which would look like this.

# Configure the new feed.
$ echo 'src/gz openwrt_telephony https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10-SNAPSHOT/packages/x86_64/telephony' >> /etc/opkg/customfeeds.conf

# Install a package from it.
$ opkg update
$ opkg install asterisk