tch-coreutils

Statically linked arm binaries of the GNU coreutils, specifically for deployment on Technicolor Gateway routers.

/etc/opkg.conf

The /etc/opkg.conf file must contain the architecture for your device.

32 bit ARM Cortex-A9 Devices

Example for a 32 bit Technicolor device such as the Telstra Smart Modem Gen 2 and earlier generation devices:

dest root /
dest ram /tmp
lists_dir ext /var/opkg-lists
option overlay_root /overlay
arch all 1
arch noarch 1
arch arm_cortex-a9 10
arch arm_cortex-a9_neon 20
arch brcm63xx-tch 30
arch bcm53xx 40

The following line also needs to be added to /etc/opkg/customfeeds.conf:

src/gz tch_static https://raw.githubusercontent.com/seud0nym/tch-coreutils/master/repository/arm_cortex-a9/packages

64-bit device ARM Cortex-A53 Devices

Example for a 64 bit Technicolor device such as the Telstra Smart Modem Gen 3:

dest root /
dest ram /tmp
lists_dir ext /var/opkg-lists
option overlay_root /overlay
option check_signature
dest lcm_native /opt/
arch all 1
arch noarch 1
arch arm_cortex-a53 10
arch aarch64_cortex-a53 20

The following line also needs to be added to /etc/opkg/customfeeds.conf:

src/gz tch_static https://raw.githubusercontent.com/seud0nym/tch-coreutils/master/repository/arm_cortex-a53/packages

Package Signature Verification

Later versions of opkg require the Package index file to signed. If you get a "Signature check failed" error when executing opkg update, download and add the key file:

curl -sklO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/seud0nym/tch-coreutils/master/keys/seud0nym-public.key
opkg-key add seud0nym-public.key
rm seud0nym-public.key

Building

The release binaries were built using the build.sh script. The individual OpenWrt opkg .ipk files are built using an adapted version of the make-ipk.sh script from https://bitsum.com/creating_ipk_packages.htm, which is executed automatically by build.sh.

Prerequisites

The following packages are required to be installed before running build.sh:

• autotools-dev
• autoconf
• cmake
• automake
• build-essential
• git

The usign private key seud0nym-private.key is also required to sign the Packages file.