[GTALUG] Debian Linux as-a-router Guide

[Val Kulkov]

On Sat, 9 Sept 2023 at 15:07, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 01:25:15PM -0400, Val Kulkov via talk wrote:
> > To the best of my knowledge, OpenWRT retains all manually installed
> > packages during system upgrade if you use their "sysupgrade" utility,
> with
> > the exception of the x86_64 platform. On x86_64, upgrading is indeed a
> > pain. But then there is the "Attended Sysupgrade", which I have not tried
> > yet:
> https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/attended.sysupgrade
>
> I have to reinstall packages after every sysupgrade.  It will keep a
> list of packages you installed, but it sure doesn't install them for you.
>
> I think they have an option now to generate images with a list of extra
> packages for you.  I haven't looked at that yet.


Use "make menuconfig" to customize your image and add packages, save the
changes and then execute:
./scripts/diffconfig.sh > diffconfig

The "diffconfig" file will contain all your customizations and added
packages. Next time you are about to build an image, execute:
cp diffconfig .config
make defconfig

If you want to put custom files in your image, like for example your
current configuration in /etc/config/* create <buildroot>/files/ and copy
your files there. They will be baked into the image.

For more details, see
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/toolchain/use-buildsystem

After that, you can build your image with
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