compiling only packages that have patented functionality

[Paul Spooren]

Mar 17, 2021 12:37:26 AM Alberto Bursi <bobafetthotmail at gmail.com>:

> I'm investigating about making an unofficial third party repository 
> with OpenWrt (non-kmod) packages where patented functionality is 
> enabled. For example ffmpeg from packages is missing some functionality 
> in its "non-patented" form and most end users won't be able to just 
> recompile from sources with that option enabled.
>
> Is there a non-hacky way to build only packages that are affected by 
> the "patented functionality" switch in the build system?
>
> At the moment the only thing I can think about is a script that parses 
> the package makefiles and compiles a list, and then builds only those 
> packages with the SDK or buildroot.

The packages.git CI uses a little script to determine what packages 
changes. I think that step could be trivially modified to find patent 
packages.

Once you have the names, you could pass them to a GitHub action to 
automatically compile and upload/store.

I briefly describe a setup here:
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/github-action-for-package-building-and-testing/91324

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