Does anybody know how/where the OpenWRT build system in onion gets the program source and packages from?

For example lets say I wanted to use ffmpeg, but the one that is in the OpenWRT build is an old version of the ffmpeg source and i want to force it to download the source for the newest ffmpeg and use that in the package when its building.

Does anybody know how to do that?

Thanks

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/package-policies#source_packages

I would like to know how to update it. Im not an OpenWRT expert, I was hoping there was an easy way like a command I can type or something like that.

Or how can I get the Onion developers to update it, or they can just tell me how.

Thanks

So no real huge advance in versions of gphoto2, is there something specific you are struggling with? Perhaps a piece of hardware that is not functioning, with more specific details members may be able to find a solution for you, rather than having to sort out a version upgrade.

Version 2.5.17 was released 5 years ago, so a lot of bugs have been fixed during that time.

I tried changing the make files in the onion OpenWRT gphoto2 feed to use the latest versions of gphoto and libgphoto, but when i tried building the onion OpenWRT in the onion docker with the new Makefile pointing to the newest version I get the following errors (seems the patch files need to be modified also which i dont know how to do), any ideas?

~/source# make -j8
........
touch /root/source/build_dir/target-mipsel_24kc_musl/libgphoto2-2.5.30/.prepared_b116b1072df06e9be7d5fc37461ba5f7_6664517399ebbbc92a37c5bb081b5c53_check
. /root/source/include/shell.sh; bzcat /root/source/dl/libgphoto2-2.5.30.tar.bz2 | tar -C /root/source/build_dir/target-mipsel_24kc_musl/libgphoto2-2.5.30/.. -xf -
[ ! -d ./src/ ] || cp -fpR ./src/. /root/source/build_dir/target-mipsel_24kc_musl/libgphoto2-2.5.30

Applying ./patches/001-automake-compat.patch using plaintext:
patching file configure.ac
Hunk #1 FAILED at 209.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file configure.ac.rej
patching file libgphoto2_port/configure.ac
Hunk #1 FAILED at 124.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file libgphoto2_port/configure.ac.rej
Patch failed! Please fix ./patches/001-automake-compat.patch!
Makefile:819: recipe for target '/root/source/build_dir/target-mipsel_24kc_musl/libgphoto2-2.5.30/.prepared_b116b1072df06e9be7d5fc37461ba5f7_6664517399ebbbc92a37c5bb081b5c53' failed
make[3]: *** [/root/source/build_dir/target-mipsel_24kc_musl/libgphoto2-2.5.30/.prepared_b116b1072df06e9be7d5fc37461ba5f7_6664517399ebbbc92a37c5bb081b5c53] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/root/source/feeds/packages/libs/libgphoto2'
Command exited with non-zero status 2
time: package/feeds/packages/libgphoto2/compile#1.19#0.32#1.32
package/Makefile:107: recipe for target 'package/feeds/packages/libgphoto2/compile' failed
make[2]: *** [package/feeds/packages/libgphoto2/compile] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/root/source'
package/Makefile:103: recipe for target '/root/source/staging_dir/target-mipsel_24kc_musl/stamp/.package_compile' failed
make[1]: *** [/root/source/staging_dir/target-mipsel_24kc_musl/stamp/.package_compile] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/source'
/root/source/include/toplevel.mk:216: recipe for target 'world' failed
make: *** [world] Error 2
root@407ba1279d99:~/source#

PKG_NAME:=gphoto2
#PKG_VERSION:=2.5.17
PKG_VERSION:=2.5.23
PKG_RELEASE:=1
PKG_MAINTAINER:=Leonardo Medici <leonardo_medici@me.com>

PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.bz2
PKG_SOURCE_URL:=@SF/gphoto
#PKG_HASH:=aa571039240c68a053be710ca41645aed0239fa2f0b737b8ec767fef29e3544f
PKG_HASH:=df87092100e7766c9d0a4323217c91908a9c891c0d3670ebf40b76903be458d1
PKG_LICENSE:=GPL-2.0
PKG_LICENSE_FILES:=COPYING

https://github.com/openwrt/packages/tree/openwrt-21.02/libs/libgphoto2
https://github.com/openwrt/packages/tree/openwrt-21.02/multimedia/gphoto2

They build ok on the OpenWrt build system you are using.

gphoto2 VERSION 2.5.28
libgphoto2 VERSION 2.5.30

I tried putting those versions in the makefile and the matching hashes, but when i compile it gives an error because it seems the patch files that are in there that its trying to apply are from the old version. So i dont know how to fix that is the problem im running into.

<source>/feeds/packages/multimedia/gphoto2/patches

The patch files refer to the version so it's surprising the build is trying to apply them to the wrong version.