flexbuild2108

[dibyarekha]

I am using Ubuntu 22.04. I am trying to build the rootfs for ubuntu lite userland using flexbuilder .

It is building fine with default packages.

But I want to add some other packages like ppp, net-snmp-server etc. In which file I should add the package name such that I will able to get the packages for LS1043ARDB?

As per the user guide of LSDK2108, I trired to add the packages in extra packages list under <flexbuild>/configs/ubuntu/extra_packages_list

But I am not able to add , below warning messages are showing when I am trying to add

 (gedit:9681): dconf-WARNING **: 14:27:07.195: failed to commit changes to dconf: Failed to execute child process “dbus-launch” (No such file or directory)

(gedit:9681): dconf-WARNING **: 14:27:07.197: failed to commit changes to dconf: Failed to execute child process “dbus-launch” (No such file or directory)

(gedit:9681): dconf-WARNING **: 14:27:07.389: failed to commit changes to dconf: Failed to execute child process “dbus-launch” (No such file or directory)

(gedit:9681): dconf-WARNING **: 14:27:07.390: failed to commit changes to dconf: Failed to execute child process “dbus-launch” (No such file or directory)

(gedit:9681): dconf-WARNING **: 14:27:07.390: failed to commit changes to dconf: Failed to execute child process “dbus-launch” (No such file or directory)

** (gedit:9681): WARNING **: 14:34:34.390: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-position not supported

(gedit:9681): dconf-WARNING **: 14:34:34.427: failed to commit changes to dconf: Failed to execute child process “dbus-launch” (No such file or directory)

Please help  me

[williawh]

https://www.slideshare.net/antonywcl/open-wrt

This may help you with adding packages. I have not done so yet. It starts on slide 8

"Create OpenWRT Package"

There are a lot of adds but you can skip them. You do not have to download it.

Hope this helps.

William

[williawh]

hey @dibyarekha I owe you a bigly apology. I got my head stuck so far up openwrt and trying to build a FIT image of openwrt that I totally gave you answers using openwrt build system. Not flexbuilder.

I do recommend you using Ubuntu 20.4 though and see if all your compile errors go away. 

Really sorry,

William

[williawh]

One more thing...

I tried Ubuntu 22.04 and just gave up on it. To many build errors... Especially cant find pip

I have seen posts where Ubuntu 20.4 is recommended and that is what I use.
And the packages required are below.

DO NOT INSTALL python3 stuff in BOLD!!! Don't need it. My system is building just fine without it.

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/toolchain/install-buildsystem
Older advice:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential ccache ecj fastjar file g++ gawk \
gettext git java-propose-classpath libelf-dev libncurses5-dev \
libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev python python2.7-dev python3 unzip wget \
python3-distutils python3-setuptools python3-dev rsync subversion \
swig time xsltproc zlib1g-dev

[dibyarekha]

I installed ubuntu20.04 and successfully built LSDK for LS1043ardb.
Now I want to add some packages like ppp and net-snmp-server. How can I do that? Please guide me.

[williawh · Accepted solution]

cd ~/flexbuild_lsdk2108_github/configs/ubuntu

vi extra_packages_list

search for extra_main_packages_list

add ppp snmpd snmp libsnmp-dev at the end

extra_main_packages_list=" \
apt apt-utils git gcc vim wget make build-essential u-boot-tools zip bc
device-tree-compiler python3 python3-dev python3-numpy ethtool libxml2-dev
libsensors4-dev libedit-dev liblzma-dev binutils-dev autoconf automake
dh-autoreconf libnuma-dev libpcap-dev qemu-kvm bridge-utils libtool bison
libncurses5-dev libelf-dev curl flex ftp openssh-server openssh-client
autotools-dev tcpdump vlan linux-tools-generic strace debootstrap mdadm
sysstat rdate initramfs-tools mtd-utils dosfstools pciutils net-tools
iputils-ping hdparm psmisc keyutils efibootmgr software-properties-common
libssl-dev ca-certificates libnl-genl-3-dev libreadline-dev libffi-dev
libudev-dev libinput-dev libpixman-1-dev libxkbcommon-dev libpng-dev
libcairo2-dev libpam0g-dev lsb-release kexec-tools iptables rsync lvm2
liblua5.3-dev parted strongswan dmidecode libsystemd-dev util-linux cmake
libxcb-composite0-dev libxcursor-dev libtinfo-dev libvirt-daemon-system
libvirt0 ifenslave lshw ppp snmpd snmp libsnmp-dev

flex-builder -i clean-rfs
flex-builder -i mkrfs -m ls1046afrwy -F (i am building for my machine ls1046afrwy)

I had to do the following for some reason to get it to build for some reason...
('-F' option can force build the target userland from scratch regardless of the
FETCH_PREBUILT_LSDK_RFS=y configured in configs/sdk.yml)

~/flexbuild_lsdk2108_github# flex-builder -i mkrfs -m ls1046afrwy -F
MACHINE: ls1046afrwy
generating /home/openwrt/Devel/flexbuild_lsdk2108_github/build/rfs/rootfs_lsdk2108_ubuntu_main_arm64 ...
extra packages list: /home/openwrt/Devel/flexbuild_lsdk2108_github/configs/ubuntu/extra_packages_list
I: Retrieving InRelease
I: Checking Release signature
I: Valid Release signature (key id F6ECB3762474EDA9D21B7022871920D1991BC93C)
I: Retrieving Packages
I: Validating Packages
I: Resolving dependencies of required packages...
I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...
I: Checking component main on http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports...
.

See if this works for you...

Reference: Layerscape Software Development Kit User Guide, Rev. 21.08, 05 September 2022

See 4.3.13
How to build various userland with custom packages

[dibyarekha]

Thanks for your response. I got it. Thank you so much

[dibyarekha]

Thanks for this guidance, I will try using Ubuntu20.04 as per the guide

[williawh]

I assume you are selecting target ls1043a-rdb default or SD card boot

I assume that you have done:

./scripts/feeds update -a
./scripts/feeds install -a

Do this:

./scripts/feeds update luci
./scripts/feeds install -a -p luci

./scripts/feeds update ppp
./scripts/feeds install -a -p ppp

./scripts/feeds update net-snmp-server
./scripts/feeds install -a -p net-snmp-server

make menuconfig

Scroll down to select: LuCI --->
Protocols:
< > luci-proto-ppp.......................... Support for PPP/PPPoE/PPPoA/PPtP
Applications:
< > luci-app-snmpd................................... Net-SNMP LuCI interface

Select them with a "y" it will put an *

[dibyarekha]

I am using LS1043ARDB as target.
I have not done these
./scripts/feeds update -a
./scripts/feeds install -a
I don't have this scripts file
where should I get this?

[williawh]

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/start

• Build system essentials
• Build system setup
• Build system usage

These helped me out tremendously in the beginning...

[williawh]

In your openwrt directory, Just enter them on the command line:

root@osboxes:/home/openwrt/Devel/openwrt-22.03# ./scripts/feeds update -a