On 15/09/2015 20:32, Rüdiger, Christoph wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm quite new to OpenWrt and being faced with an existing build tree here.
> After reading nearly everything I could force Google to bubble it up to the
> top result pages, I'm still struggling with a simple question.
>
> Our build tree is full of custom patches to different packages, mainly in the
> openwrt/package directory. This makes it close to impossible to update the
> repository to a new OpenWrt version without producing a good bunch of merge
> conflicts. Besides that, there is our custom feed with additional packages,
> mainly with custom built software.
>
> What I understood so far is, that you can bring in new packages with feeds.
> But how can I move our changes to the core packages in openwrt/package apart
> into a per-project structure to keep the openwrt/package folder clean for
> updates?
>
> I've worked in the past with ptxdist, where you have a base build system (the
> ptxdist distribution) with a package repository where you can select packages
> from. On top of this, you have per project its own directory, containing the
> project specific build configuration and the project specific packages plus a
> project specific rootfs overlay. This makes it very easy: Just put a file in
> the project specific rootfs and this one makes it into the images instead of
> the default one. Just put a package into the project specific package
> directory and this one gets build instead of the default one.
>
> Can someone please help me to find the proper places in OpenWrt to store the
> per-project settings? Especially the per-project Makefiles (mostly, we are
> influencing the build process or the package creation process).
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Best regards,
> Christoph
>
>
Hi,
what kind of changes are we talking about ? just config file stuff or
big changes to how stuff is built and installed ?
John
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