[OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC 0/3] PoC for per-image package sets

[Andre Valentin]

Hi Bjoern,

that looks very interesting. I do have the same problems here with initial images and made special .configs for that.

Kind regards,

André


Am 22.04.20 um 22:58 schrieb Bjørn Mork:
> These patches can also be found in a branch here:
> https://github.com/bmork/openwrt/tree/image-packagesets
> 
> Dumping this as-is for discussion.  Not sure I'm capable of, or
> will have time to, finish it.  But I am hoping it is a useful
> start if someone else wants to give it a try.  If not, then I
> guess it isn't a useful enough feature after all.
> 
> The state of this is sort-of working for me, but definitely
> not complete and working for all different build scenarios.
> I have not tested IB or PER_TARGET_ROOTFS builds.  legacy-devices
> haven't been updated at all and are therefore broken. etc.
> 
> To recap the use case:  I have a device where the vendor tftp
> server limits the size of the initial OpenWrt image we can 
> upload. An initramfs image is preferrable due to the ability to
> boot from either of the dual partitions.
> 
> For this reason I wanted to build an initramfs with a limited
> set of packages, without having to reduce the default device
> packages for the other images.
> 
> I have noticed that this use case is not unique.  We have for
> example Build/ubnt-erx-factory-image in mt7621.mk, attempting
> to build an initramfs based image which will fit within
> $(KERNEL_SIZE), which is a tiny 3MB.  This is obviously futile
> and there is therefore no such image on downloads.openwrt.org.
> You can build one yourself by carefully removing packages, but
> it would be nice if we could let the buildbots produce one too.
> 
> Anyway, look at the code and see if my ideas can be used. I'll
> admit that I'm no make Guru...
> 
> The first patch simplifies the current initramfs process, and
> avoids copying the special initramfs /init into the shared
> TARGET_DIR. It still makes a copy of the file to be able to
> set the timestamp though.  I believe this patch is useful by
> itself, and I don't think it breaks anything.  Not mcuh at
> least :-)
> 
> The second patch tries to abuse the per-target rootfs code
> for doing per-image roofs.  The default package set can be
> adjusted by adding packages to an IMAGE_PACKAGES/<image>
> variable.  Or more useful: Packages can be removed by
> prefixing them with a '-'.  As usual, you'll need to resolve
> dependencies manually if other packackes depend on the ones
> you want to remove.
> 
> The third patch is the yuckiest one.  It delays the kernel
> part of the initramfs building until we have some idea about
> images, devices and packages.  It then uses the same 
> per-image rootfs source directory scheme as input for the
> kernel.  I'm not proud of how this curretly looks.  But I had
> to stop here.  
> 
> 
> Bjørn Mork (3):
>   kernel-defaults: refactor initramfs build
>   build: implement per-image package sets
>   build: per-image package set for initramfs
> 
>  include/image.mk           | 33 ++++++++++++----
>  include/kernel-build.mk    |  1 -
>  include/kernel-defaults.mk | 77 ++++++++++++++------------------------
>  3 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
> 


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