Have compatible kmods with own build

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Hi,
I forked your source to experiment a lot with OpenWrt. I'm building a simulated mesh network. From time to time I merge latest updates from upstream.
The problem is that when I build my own images I cannot install packages that have dependencies to kernel version. The packages you offer from your servers keep deriving from the kernel version the moment I built it.
How can I circumvent that? Can I somehow build my own packages, offer them for my images on my own webserver or is there another way?

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Yes, currently there's basically two approaches.

  1. Mirror (or maybe just reverse-proxy to conserve bandwith) the OpenWrt download repositories while serving the base repository contents from your own server. For that you'll have to adjust the repository base URL in menuconfing, [*] Image configuration ---> [*] Version configuration options ---> Release repository
  2. Build your local image with all kmod packages from all feeds enabled, this should theoretically yield a compatible kernel version hash: sed -i -e '/# CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-/d' .config; echo CONFIG_ALL_KMODS=y >> .config; make defconfig; make
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