[Armbian build PR] - fixes and squash warnings, mid May/'23: All `not-eos` artifacts & boards now build OK

fixes and squash warnings, mid May/'23: All not-eos artifacts & boards now build OK

Board/family fixes for non-building stuff

• mt7623: remove packages/extras-buildpkgs/mmc-utils/debian/rules install that does not exist anymore (should fix bananapir2)
  • no idea where this went... ❓
• rootfs/aggregation/helios64: fix: include PACKAGE_LIST_BOARD_REMOVE (and FAMILY version) into rootfs' artifact_input_variables
  • PACKAGE_LIST_BOARD_REMOVE is used only in helios64 board
  • the fact is PACKAGE_LIST_BOARD_REMOVE removes the packages from the rootfs and not from the image (this is a breaking, unwanted, change in aggregation that happened during armbian_next, that should be fixed later)
  • this only accounts for that fact, but in the future we should actually change how this works

Generally curb WARNings that are either unuseful, unneeded, actually-debugging, or just too much for CI/GHA

• logging/retries: curb CI/GHA warning emitted for each retry
• binfmts: hide output when loading qemu-arm under aarch64 (some are native, some are emulated, all are good, errors can be ignored) [part 2/2]
• logging/rockchip64_common: curb warning about BOOT_SOC vs BOOTCONFIG if BOOTCONFIG is empty or 'none'
  • we've enough warnings already
• logging: curb warning that always came up when SRC_EXTLINUX=yes
  • SRC_EXTLINUX is quite prevalent, no use warning, it was more a debugging marker
• logging: curb CI/GHA special errors for cascading errors during build failure
  • otherwise we get 4 errors for each "error" in CI
    • one for the real error
    • one for "wait for cleanups"
    • one for "Docker build failed"
    • one from GHA itself since command failed (we can't get rid of this)
• apt_purge_unneeded_packages_and_clean_apt_caches(): count files, don't use du: avoid WARNs when not needed; tolerate 1 file
  • 'lock' might or not be there, tolerate 1 file (not 0)
• squash more warnings:
  • odroidxu4's firmware hook for vendor kernel. such is life, no use warning.
  • sun50iw9: vendor kernel with extension, proven working, stop warning -
  • old kernels don't have working headers, it's a fact of life, remove warning

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