[ET8x00] Packages missing on image build (et8000)

[birdman]

What type of support thread are you creating?

Support question

What OpenViX Image build number are you using?

6.8.002.001

Have you tried re-flashing WITHOUT settings restore?

NO

Have you tried re-flashing WITH a settings restore?

NO

I'm building my own image for the et8000.

When I do so I notice that the et8000_3rdparty directory is no longer there under tmp/deploy/ipk/ when the build finishes. Likewise, the et8000_3rdparty-feed.con file is missing under /etc/opkg.

The same is true for the 3rdparty locations and conf file.

This is for 6.8.002.001.
This is also true on the standard/official build, and it was also true on whatever was around on Nov 7 (so a 6.8.001.00x release).

However, these 3rdparty locations were present in a build I did on Oct 5th (which might have a 6.8.000-beta release, but I think it was actually the first non-beta release).

The only entry in et8000_3rdparty is enigma2-plugin-systemplugins-autorebootET8000_1.4_mipsel.ipk and this is built by the meta-oe-alliance/meta-oe/recipes-oe-alliance/enigma2-plugins/enigma2-3rdparty-plugins.bb file. If I look at the log from a full build, this recipe file is never mentioned.

Does anyone know what is going on? Why are the 3rdparty parts no longer built?

 

[Huevos]

Does anyone know what is going on? Why are the 3rdparty parts no longer built?

Yes, I deleted 3rdparty feeds from the entire OE-Alliance build in October.

[oe-alliance-3rdparty-feed] add recipe and related changes · oe-alliance/oe-alliance-core@00d3f7f

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There are 7 plugins in 3rdparty, 5 of which are superfluous. ipchecker (already built in to OpenViX), netspeedtest (redundant, there is a better plugin in the feeds), screengrabber (WebIf has this feature built in), sundtekcontrolcenter (needed for the stick). etc.

It is ludicrous that we were building and hosting "3rdparty" and "machine_3rdparty" feeds for 60 machines (and that is just OpenViX) just for the sake of a handful of redundant plugins.

With the current build you get one central feed for all distros. From "/etc/opkg/oe-alliance-3rdparty-feed.conf" which downloads the packages directly from the github source.

That collects "Packages.gz from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oe-alliance/3rdparty-feed/gh-pages/

enigma2-plugin-systemplugins-autorebootET8000 is listed in Packages.gz.

Package: enigma2-plugin-systemplugins-autorebootET8000
Version: 1.4
Description: auto reboot box ET8000
Section: base
Priority: optional
Maintainer: original-birdman
Architecture: mipsel
Homepage: https://github.com/original-birdman/autorebootET8000
Depends: update-rc.d
Filename: enigma2-plugin-systemplugins-autorebootet8000_1.4_mipsel.ipk
Size: 3532
MD5Sum: af4e069af5d1996e6d04dcac1491e922

 

[birdman]

Thanks for the explanation.

 

[birdman]

Just occurred to me that the reason I was querying this is that the autoreboot plugin didn't show up in "opkg list".
The reason for that is that I have no oe-alliance-3rdparty-feed.conf file in /etc/opkg/ on my system,
And the reason for that is that I haven't flashed an image since the first 6.8.000.xxx.

It is in the image (I checked that) so I'll copy it over and try again....
....that seems to work.
Although I do see that the arch.conf file (which opkg does open - to get priorities?) still mentions

arch 3rdparty 41
arch et8000_3rdparty 46