How to include additional packages using CLI without going to "make menuconfig"?

[hnyman]

Just add properly formatted lines to the end of your .config

(And after that you should run "make defconfig" to pull in possible dependencies)

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 .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. Pretty easy, once you get the .config recipe for master. It usually needs only slight ch…

Using config diffs in buildroot without needing to manually track depedencies

Usually I just edit config_seed directly and enable only "direct packages" in there. Then cp config_seed .config make defconfig It should bring in all current dependencies of those "direct packages"