saltext-opkg

A Salt extension that restores the opkg execution module — the pkg provider for opkg-based systems (OpenWrt up to 24.10, Turris OS, NI Linux Real-Time, OpenEmbedded).

Source: https://gitlab.com/paulto/saltext-opkg

OpenWrt 25.12 and later use apk instead: see saltext-apk.

Why this exists

Salt 3008 removed salt/modules/opkg.py in its purge of community extensions (it was last present in v3007.14). No replacement extension was published, so on Salt 3008 there is no pkg provider for opkg at all. This package restores it.

What differs from the original

Nothing yet: the first commit is the verbatim v3007.14 module, reformatted since, so the git history shows every change.

Known problem inherited from upstream: pkg.install, pkg.remove and pkg.upgrade call restartcheck.restartcheck after opkg has run. Without psutil that module does not load and the call raises KeyError: 'restartcheck.restartcheck'.

Install

Into the same environment as Salt (onedir / uv / system):

salt-pip install saltext-opkg

or as a Salt state:

saltext.opkg:
  pip.installed:
    - bin_env: /usr/bin/salt-pip

Once installed, it loads as the pkg provider on NI Linux Real-Time and on any minion with an /etc/opkg directory.

License

Apache-2.0 — the same license as the Salt code it derives from; see LICENSE. The opkg module is derived from SaltStack's salt/modules/opkg.py; copyright of the original portions remains with the SaltStack authors.