[OLSR-users] Re: Creating openwrt firmware bin

[Andrew Hodel]

Aled Morris wrote:

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>>Is there someway of installing an ipkg into buildroot? 
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>In the current stable version of OpenWRT, not really, unless you really 
>want to get into the guts of the build process (you probably don't :-) 
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>The new experimental version of OpenWRT lets you do exactly this. Don't 
>know whether you'll end up with something that works, though. 
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>Me, I have an appalling hack that may be of use: Install whatever ipkg's  
>you need, then save the entire JFFS partition (using the dd comand) to  
>ramdisk (/tmp). 
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>Then you can scp it somewhere safe, and restore it onto a different box, thus 
>effectively cloning the first box. 
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>Regards, 
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>Aled. 
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Could you perhaps elaborate on the steps you take to do this?



Andrew