Build for Netgear R7800

[hnyman]

@dcasares

I have been successful in recreating the build environment and able to create images, but I've searched through the forum. Although I haven't found if it was possible to modify the script to be able to build a 18.06.2 stable build with your patches if someone can direct me to what I need to modify in the script if it's possible

Easiest would be to simply download the scripts from my newest 18.06 build and to create the build env with them. 18.06 requires different patches than master, so you need those anyway.

And note that likely you should build from the 18.06 head to get the newest fixes, instead of the half-year old 18.06.2 release. If you really want the old 18.06.2, read advice from this thread

Checkout a tagged release's source code (like v21.02.0)

Advice to NOT checkout the tagged release: For most users it is usually better to compile from the HEAD of the release branch instead of compiling the exact release like 21.02.0 Checking out the exact release locks also the feeds (packages, LuCI etc..) to the commits at the release moment. Later fixes made to LuCI and other packages will not get compiled into the firmware. Similarly fixes made later to the 21.02 branch main OpenWrt sources do not get included. (see the locked feeds at https:/…