On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 02:03:24PM -0800, Brian Norris wrote: > In case you are open to giving more helpful tips to a relative > newcomer to openwrt development: > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 11:59 AM Brian Norris > <computersforpe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'll just need to > > force a 'base64' utility into these images > > This is turning out to be nontrivial. The only in-tree base64 tool is > a busybox tool, and it's not enabled in the default busybox > configuration. I don't see an easy way for a target to change this > default. I *do* see package dependencies that do this (like > DEPENDS:=+@BUSYBOX_CONFIG_<feature>), but I don't think that works in > a target (e.g., adding to DEVICE_PACKAGES). > > Do I need to create some intermediate/stub package just to express the > dependency, or is there some better way? >
In theory there is [1] coreutils-base64 as a separate package but I think we have to move that to core packages as it's part of the feeds package. Just for testing can you test if that package suits your need for a userspace solution? [1] https://openwrt.org/packages/pkgdata/coreutils-base64 -- Ansuel _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel