On 10/09/2016 07:05 PM, Simon H wrote: > I'm looking to contribute in some small way once again. > Not being a regular linux user, creating a build environment for > Lede/OpenWRT has always been a time-consuming process for me. > > However, on other projects, I've begun to use Vagrant (specifically > VVV for web development). > > Although completely new to vagrant, it's working well for me, and so i > thought i'd give it a try for Lede. > > The result is on github: > > https://github.com/btsimonh/lede-vagrant > > If people think this is a good way to encourage developers to 'join > the cause', then maybe we could host something similar in the Lede > github, and add a 'start developing with Lede' page referencing it? > > looking forward to hearing comments/suggestions... > > best regards, > > Simon >
Hm, another thing that might be useful to package with vagrant is the Image Builder. https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/obtain.firmware.generate It's a thing that generates firmware images with a custom set of packages without recompiling from source (downloads packages from repos and creates the image). This tool is useful for those that want to make a custom firmware image but have no need to recompile everything from source. (= it is a tool for end users, not developers) The tool works only in linux 64bit, so again people without a linux system can't use it without setting up various things themselves. I think you can reuse 99% of the current setup you use for the "lede development environment deployment", so it should be quick. One usecase is making extroot-ready firmware images for devices with 4 MiB of storage and USB/Sata/sdcard ports, so that they can use the external mass storage device to install packages. Or also firmware images wil luci (web-interface) and announce/avahi/zeroconf already embedded, as currently none has yet changed anything about the buildbots and they still make barebones ssh-only images. Or to fit the most packages possible in the embedded flash, as the imagebuilder dumps all packages in the root squashfs highly compressed read-only filesystem, while installing packages in the router goes in the overlay jffs2 partition which is much less compressed, but read-write. -Alberto _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
