I'd like to add my custom files to my Openwrt image without using Image builder. Does anyone know how I can do that? In other words, how I can add my custom files to my image either using menuconfig or somehow include them when I use make ?
Do you know how I can add custom ipk package files to the image as well? my packages are actually ash script (.sh) files. so do you know how I can have them as ipk files and can update them with opkg tool?
You’d have to craft a package Makefile for them, build them with the SDK or full build system, copy all the resulting assets and indexes to a web server for access.
Much easier for a few devices just to scp the scripts to the devices.
Note: Upgrading packages is generally a bad idea. Many threads on the reasons why available through search.
Thank you @jeff. Could you pls explain what you mean by "Note: Upgrading packages is generally a bad idea. Many threads on the reasons why available through search."