[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH 2/2] Add script to build common platforms.

[Karl Palsson]

greearb at candelatech.com wrote:
> From: Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
> 
> The idea is to be able to allow newbies to easily build images
> for common hardware. These images should be user-friendly,
> including luci and other tools that may aid debugging and use
> of the platform.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
> ---
>  buildme.sh                            | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  buildme_targets/x86_64/diffconfig.txt | 26 ++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 102 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100755 buildme.sh
>  create mode 100644 buildme_targets/x86_64/diffconfig.txt
> 


While I've written similar scripts for helping colleagues
bootstrap a build, I'm not entirely convinced that adding more
piles of shell script to the build tree is necessarily an
improvement, if the goal is helping people build an image that
suits them.

Perhaps expanding the README to include examples of some common
tasks, more guidance on how to use menuconfig, more examples of
how to use the feeds scripts, and what they are. Perhaps even, if
you're targetting total beginners, documenting how the image
builder thing works would actually meet your goals better. I've
never understood the image builder myself, it's documented here:
https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/obtain.firmware.generate but
seems complicated to follow that page.

lede, like openwrt before it, still has large piles of
undocumented usage methods, only uncovered by digging through
script after script. Adding more scripts to hide the
complexity/flexibility/power of some of those other scripts
doesn't seem like a net gain.

Sincerely,
Karl Palsson
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