rclone is an amazing utility. There is a feed here:
it works very well. You can sync files to cloud storage like OneDrive or Google Drive. I personally use it to mount OneDrive in samba mount to present my scanner with share to which it can upload to OneDrive.
... but why is this not in the OpenWrt main?
because the developer hasn't submitted it to openwrt/packages. That's how it works for non-core packages.
From this issue in 2019 you can see he is aware that the community package repo exists https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/10864
So I think you should ask him why he did not do this. He seems to have a forum account too so @ElonH should send him a notification about this thread
You can also submit the package yourself if you can become its maintainer (i.e. update the links in OpenWrt to point to a newer release)
A plus-one here, rclone is very useful.
Right! And having to constantly download SDK and rebuild for each snapshot is a little time consuming.
Rclone feels like a staple utility that ought to be a package that is readily available for the average Joe who lacks SDK skills.
I've cleaned up the Makefiles and created a branch for PR:
However, due to the ld linker issue, I have to disable CGO explicitly, but looks a little ugly.
See https://github.com/1715173329/packages-official/blob/20722013b772d067135fcb16aca4ad0c83f59a20/net/rclone/Makefile#L55
Does anyone know how to address it? Any suggestion is appreciated.
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github.com/rclone/rclone
# github.com/rclone/rclone/librclone
/home/tianling/openwrt/staging_dir/hostpkg/lib/go-cross/pkg/tool/linux_amd64/link: running arm-openwrt-linux-muslgnueabi-gcc failed: exit status 1
collect2: fatal error: cannot find 'ld'
compilation terminated.
# github.com/rclone/rclone
/home/tianling/openwrt/staging_dir/hostpkg/lib/go-cross/pkg/tool/linux_amd64/link: running arm-openwrt-linux-muslgnueabi-gcc failed: exit status 1
collect2: fatal error: cannot find 'ld'
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [Makefile:95: /home/tianling/openwrt/build_dir/target-arm_xscale_musl_eabi/rclone-1.56.2/.built] Error 2
Thanks, I'm glad to you interest in my repo.
Rclone-OpenWrt contains several packages (rclone, rclone-ng, rclone-webui-react, luci-app-rclone)
@Lynx Do you talk about rclone only or all of them?
I have moved the repo to https://github.com/immortalwrt/Rclone-OpenWrt maintained by ImmortalWrt Team (Of course, I'm one of them).
This repo is old(1.52) but stable.
The PR committed by @1715173329 is a 1.56 version, it workaround, but ugly, just as @1715173329 said. I hope someone can help us.
Because of the complexity and time in using the SDK I have only ever used the main rclone package. I have had no stability issues although the guys in the rclone forum advised upgrading to a later version because of its age for what I wanted to do (mount OneDrive). But nevertheless it has always worked flawlessly for my use case. If it were easy to try I would also try out the LuCi packages.
Here is the script I use:
root@OpenWrt:~# cat /etc/init.d/mount-onedrive
#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common
# Copyright (C) 2007 OpenWrt.org
export PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
exec &> /tmp/mount-onedrive.log
START=97
STOP=4
start() {
rclone mkdir /tmp/OneDrive
rclone mount "OneDrive:/Scanned Documents/" /tmp/OneDrive/ --use-mmap --buffer-size 0 --cache-dir /tmp --vfs-cache-mode writes --vfs-cache-max-age 0s --umask 000 --allow-other --daemon
}
stop() {
fusermount -zu /tmp/OneDrive
rclone rmdir /tmp/OneDrive
}
This mounts the OneDrive onto a samba share so that my scanner, which can only send to LAN shares, can send PDFs, which then get uploaded to OneDrive. All in the router RAM. Works well for me.
I've opened a PR to openwrt/packages:
Excellent - great work! Thank you. I think this is a great addition to OpenWrt. I'm surprised it hasn't been done earlier. Perhaps people don't know what rclone can do.
I would be happy to test for latest snapshot on RT3200 but I'm clueless as to how to build package from the new source. Normally I just add @ElonH's source into custom feeds in the SDK and then compile package from that.
You may download the prebuilt binaries from GitHub Actions directly 
See https://github.com/openwrt/packages/actions/runs/1332182043
What about for MediaTek MT7622B?
It's aarch64_cortex-a53.
Please download this one: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/suites/4026615938/artifacts/101840724
Will do! Do you use rclone too then? It's great.
To be honest, it's been a long time since I last used it, also for @ElonH.
We mainly maintain this package for our friends and users.
@1715173329 @ElonH had /etc/rclone/rclone.conf the main location for the config file. Shouldn't we include that here too?
Include?
What do you mean about "include"?
In the 1.52, I have hacked the rclone default conf file path as /etc/rclone/rclone.conf. And this path is used in luci
Yes, sorry, that is what I meant. Shouldn't the rclone default conf file in 1.56 also be set to /etc/rclone/rclone.conf?
Also what is the purpose of the rclone service file in /etc/init.d?
!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common
# Copyright (C) 2019 ElonH <elonhhuang@gmail.com>
USE_PROCD=1
START=95
STOP=10
APP=rclone
CONFIGURATION=rclone
_info() {
logger -p daemon.info -t "$APP" "$*"
}
_err() {
logger -p daemon.err -t "$APP" "$*"
}
init_config() {
config_load "${CONFIGURATION}"
# Create rclone dirs
local config_path
local config_dir
local log_path
local log_dir
config_get config_path config config_path
config_get log_path log path
config_dir=${config_path%/*}
[ -d "$config_dir" ] || mkdir -p "$config_dir" 2>/dev/null
[ -f "$config_path" ] || touch "$config_path"
[ -d "/lib/upgrade/keep.d" ] || mkdir -p /lib/upgrade/keep.d/luci-app-rclone 2>/dev/null
echo "$config_path" > /lib/upgrade/keep.d/luci-app-rclone
log_dir=${log_path%/*}
[ -d "$log_dir" ] || mkdir -p "$log_dir" 2>/dev/null && echo /dev/null > "$log_path"
}
start_service() {
init_config
local enabled
local config_path
local addr_type
local port
local username
local password
local proxy_enable
local proxy_addr
local log_path
config_get enabled global enabled
config_get config_path config config_path
config_get addr_type config addr_type
config_get port config port
config_get username config username
config_get password config password
config_get proxy_enable proxy enabled
config_get proxy_addr proxy proxy_addr
config_get log_path log path
if [[ "${addr_type}" == "local" ]]; then
addr="$(uci get network.loopback.ipaddr)"
elif [[ "${addr_type}" == "lan" ]]; then
addr="$(uci get network.lan.ipaddr)"
elif [[ "${addr_type}" == "all" ]]; then
addr=""
fi
[ "$enabled" == "1" ] || { _info "Instance \"rclone\" disabled."; return 1; }
_info "Instance \"rclone\" start."
procd_open_instance
procd_set_param command /usr/bin/$APP rcd -vv
procd_append_param command "--rc-addr=$addr:$port"
procd_append_param command "--rc-user=$username" "--rc-pass=$password"
procd_append_param command "--config=$config_path"
procd_append_param command "--rc-allow-origin=*"
procd_append_param command "--log-file=${log_path}"
if [[ "${proxy_enable}" == "1" ]]; then
procd_set_param env all_proxy="$proxy_addr" https_proxy="$proxy_addr" http_proxy="$proxy_addr"
procd_append_param env ALL_PROXY="$proxy_addr" HTTPS_PROXY="$proxy_addr" HTTP_PROXY="$proxy_addr"
fi
procd_set_param stdout 1
procd_set_param stderr 1
procd_set_param file /etc/config/rclone
# procd_set_param pidfile /var/run/rclone.pid
procd_set_param user rclone
procd_set_param group rclone
procd_set_param respawn retry=60
procd_close_instance
}
service_triggers() {
procd_add_reload_trigger "rclone"
}
Also what is the purpose of the rclone service file in /etc/init.d?
This is for webui, and you may notice there're 2 packages called rclone-webui-react and rclone-ng.
So you can manage files via them.
Aria2 in OpenWrt does the same thing.
Shouldn't the rclone default conf file in 1.56 also be set to /etc/rclone/rclone.conf?
This hack is pointless anyway.
You won't need change the default config path for cli usage, on the other hand, when you start a service for webui, init script will pass config path to rclone.