Building a custom image from source and some questions

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Hello,

Due to the specifics of my needs to use OpenWRT I have to compile from source, and I have some questions:

  • I am using Debian 12.5 and I saw that there are missing packages during the preparation, who can I write to for the documentation to be completed.
  • Years ago when I experimented with compiling openwrt, you had an option which packages were in the image, now I can't find it, pr. openssh-server, multi-wan, etc.

Sorry if this is not the right topic.

Regards,
A.H.

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When you are choosing packages with make menuconfig , you can choose [ ], [m] or [*].
[ ] : do not build, do not include in image
[m] : build, do not include in image
[*] : build, include in image
The links the last user posted explain this in detail.

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Hello,

Thanks for the reply.
I saw which section the packages were in.

The documentation is incomplete.
I haven't dealt with it since yesterday.
I have years of experience with gentoo as an OS and kernel.
And from years of experience in this industry, I know

  1. Read documentation :slight_smile: RTFM (Read The F.....g Manual)
  2. Then ask questions.

If you'd like to update the Wiki at least for Debian, I'll make a new VM to test what's missing at build time and tell which packages are missing from the documentation.

I hope you don't take this as nagging, but an attempt to supplement the information.

Regards,

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I always use ubuntu to build openwrt from src, i.g. 20.04 LTS. Docs regarding required packages for successful build are complete.

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Thank you for the provided information.

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There is a lot of documentation around those two links, I just deep-linked to the answers of your question - and the documentation is complete, at least far more complete than the questions raised.

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Thank you for the provided information.

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