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by zimbatm 4278 days ago
It's possible to install another package manager like opkg. See https://github.com/progrium/busybox
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0x006A 4278 days ago
right, that would be an option, if opkg had packages for python mercurial or bzr. (those are needed for go get to work). Don't see those in http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/x86_64/packages...
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zimbatm 4278 days ago
Another solution is to build your go executable in a different container and import it into a busybox container. That changes the layering from:

    debian
    add go, bzr, mercurial, python, ...
    build executable
to:

    busybox
    executable
That reduces the amount of data that needs to be downloaded on new boxes by a factor of ten or so.
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voltagex_ 4274 days ago
Yeah, that looks good - I'm in Australia so anything that reduces the amount I need to download is excellent.
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