Block-mount depreciation and ubox replacement luci interface

yaravawiba · August 3, 2018, 6:57pm

I really like the luci interface that comes with block-mount, however here and when I install block-mount it's listed that block-mount has been depreciated in favor of ubox.

But I really like using the luci interface associated with block-mount that creates the menu System -> Mount Points. Is there anything we can do to get the luci interface with ubox?

Also, does any of this wiki still apply? I want to make sure my drives are auto mounted on boot:
https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/fstab

jow · August 3, 2018, 7:23pm

The interface should still be the same. It appears as soon as you install block-mount.

yaravawiba · August 3, 2018, 7:36pm

Yes but there is a problem whenever I install block-mount it says

Installing block-mount (2018-04-16-e2436836-1) to root...
this file has been obsoleted. please call "/sbin/block mount" directly

and whenever I try to mount things via the block-mount luci interface it does not work. The device is not mounted and I have to manually mount via SSH CLI using mount /dev/sdb1 each time.

yaravawiba · August 4, 2018, 4:09pm

Did some more research on this. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the reason why the interface Mount Points isn't showing up is because block-mount is still a dependency listed here:

github.com

openwrt/luci/blob/master/modules/luci-mod-admin-full/luasrc/controller/admin/system.lua

-- Copyright 2008 Steven Barth <steven@midlink.org>
-- Copyright 2008-2011 Jo-Philipp Wich <jow@openwrt.org>
-- Licensed to the public under the Apache License 2.0.

module("luci.controller.admin.system", package.seeall)

function index()
	local fs = require "nixio.fs"

	entry({"admin", "system"}, alias("admin", "system", "system"), _("System"), 30).index = true
	entry({"admin", "system", "system"}, cbi("admin_system/system"), _("System"), 1)
	entry({"admin", "system", "clock_status"}, post_on({ set = true }, "action_clock_status"))

	entry({"admin", "system", "admin"}, cbi("admin_system/admin"), _("Administration"), 2)

	if fs.access("/bin/opkg") then
		entry({"admin", "system", "packages"}, post_on({ exec = "1" }, "action_packages"), _("Software"), 10)
		entry({"admin", "system", "packages", "ipkg"}, form("admin_system/ipkg"))
	end

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Is there any way to change that dependency to be ubox and have the associated updates to the LuCI interface to control ubox instead of having to install block-mount?

yaravawiba · January 11, 2019, 6:01am

Any plans for this?