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The lack of bumped PKG_RELEASE variables is a recurring theme on the mailing list and in GitHub comments. This costs precious review time, a rare good within the OpenWrt project. Instead of relying on a manually set PKG_RELEASE this commit adds a `commitcount` function that uses the number of Git commits to determine the release. The function is called via the variables `$(AUTORELEASE)` or `$(COMMITCOUNT)`. The `PKG_RELEASE` variable can be set to either of the two. - $(AUTORELEASE): Release is automagically set to the number of commits since the last commit containing either ": update to " or ": bump to ". Example below: $ git log packages/foobar/ foobar: fixup file location foobar: disable docs foobar: bump to 5.3.2 foobar: fixup copyright Resulting package name: foobar_5.3.2-3_all.ipk, two package changes since the last upstream version change, using a 1 based counter. - $(COMMITCOUNT): For non-traditional versioning (x.y.z), most prominent `base-files`, this variable contains the total number of package commits. The new functionality can also be used by other feeds like packages.git. In case no build information is available, e.g. when using release tarballs, the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is used to have a reproducible release identifier. Suggested-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Spooren <mail@aparcar.org> |
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OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. For developers, OpenWrt is the framework to build an application without having to build a complete firmware around it; for users this means the ability for full customization, to use the device in ways never envisioned.
Sunshine!
Development
To build your own firmware you need a GNU/Linux, BSD or MacOSX system (case sensitive filesystem required). Cygwin is unsupported because of the lack of a case sensitive file system.
Requirements
You need the following tools to compile OpenWrt, the package names vary between distributions. A complete list with distribution specific packages is found in the Build System Setup documentation.
gcc binutils bzip2 flex python3 perl make find grep diff unzip gawk getopt
subversion libz-dev libc-dev rsync
Quickstart
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Run
./scripts/feeds update -a
to obtain all the latest package definitions defined in feeds.conf / feeds.conf.default -
Run
./scripts/feeds install -a
to install symlinks for all obtained packages into package/feeds/ -
Run
make menuconfig
to select your preferred configuration for the toolchain, target system & firmware packages. -
Run
make
to build your firmware. This will download all sources, build the cross-compile toolchain and then cross-compile the GNU/Linux kernel & all chosen applications for your target system.
Related Repositories
The main repository uses multiple sub-repositories to manage packages of
different categories. All packages are installed via the OpenWrt package
manager called opkg
. If you're looking to develop the web interface or port
packages to OpenWrt, please find the fitting repository below.
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LuCI Web Interface: Modern and modular interface to control the device via a web browser.
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OpenWrt Packages: Community repository of ported packages.
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OpenWrt Routing: Packages specifically focused on (mesh) routing.
Support Information
For a list of supported devices see the OpenWrt Hardware Database
Documentation
Support Community
- Forum: For usage, projects, discussions and hardware advise.
- Support Chat: Channel
#openwrt
on freenode.net.
Developer Community
- Bug Reports: Report bugs in OpenWrt
- Dev Mailing List: Send patches
- Dev Chat: Channel
#openwrt-devel
on freenode.net.
License
OpenWrt is licensed under GPL-2.0