Custom build: how to manage opkg installed vs. built in packages?

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@slh

trim down your diffconfig to the essential config decisions and annotate them (see hnyman's community builds for an example workflow), make defconfig oldconfig will expand those for you.

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Programmatically (non-interactively) configure the OpenWrt build

The easiest thing is probably to manually craft a short .config recipe for each target, and then tailor it for each OpenWrt version. The shirt recipe can be expanded to full .config by make defconfig or make menuconfig The .config recipe can easily be originally based on ./scripts/diffconfig.sh output I am building several community builds with that approach. (WNDR3700 with ar71xx and ath79 , R7800 ipq806x), and privately also WRT3200ACM mvebu, and I build master and 19.07 for all of them. Pr…