[LEDE-DEV] Makefile question

[Hannu Nyman]

John Crispin wrote at Fri Feb 10 21:37:19 PST 2017:
 > jow posted some instructions on how to overload parts of a packages 
install template using one of buildroots built-in features, but i am failing 
to find the mail in the archive.

You are likely referring to this:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-dev/2016-October/003360.html

There is also further discussion on Oct-Dec 2016 under the subject "replacing 
files in base system from a package?"


Philip Prindeville wrote at Fri 10 Feb 2017 21:18:07 -0800:
 > I’d like to be able to run some simple sed scripts inside the root-to-be 
directory to make some changes

One approach is using uci-defaults scripts. They run early (by 
/etc/rc.d/S10boot) in the first boot process after the flash and can do most 
of the stuff you want to do. Then the original unmodified files would be 
included in the flashed firmware, but you would modify them early in the 
first boot process after the flash.

E.g. miniupnpd disabled itself from starting after a flash via an 
uci-defaults script.
The script has been deleted (from LuCI), but here is link to the old script 
that disables a service:
https://github.com/openwrt/luci/commit/387a06bb73462312c075e53ce9e6002d4af09e92