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

[Ben Greear]

On 05/27/2016 11:10 PM, David Lang wrote:
> On Fri, 27 May 2016, Ben Greear wrote:
>
>> On 05/27/2016 02:46 AM, Karl Palsson wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> My goal is more to have an easy way to build a useful image
>> that should work for most people.  Lots of people and organizations
>> have their own forks and scripts, and it seems much of the changes are just
>> tweaks how to the core project is built.  If we can bring some
>> of this into the main tree maybe that will help everyone work
>> closer to upstream code.
>
> rather than making a bunch of scripts for specific models, how about some scripts that will let you build from a downloaded .config (yes, you can do this manually, but it could be greatly simplified)
>
> Then people can build the latest code from a much larger set of configs, and tweak a config and then use it over time to build newer versions.

My idea was to store these configs in the git repo and have an easy way for users
to find and use them.

The x86_64 is just a starting point.  I think there could be a large amount of different
configs, for different boards, different needs, etc.  Basically, everyone using openwrt has
a unique config...I think a lot of that could be re-used and shared.

Thanks,
Ben



>
> David Lang
>

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