[OpenWrt-Devel] How to rebuild exactly 12.09 from source?

[Nikolai Zhubr]

Hello Chirag,

I think I understand your method, although it is far from being 
automatic (which I was hoping for), anyway, I'll probably try it a bit 
later if I fail to locate my bug-of-interest otherwise.

Thank you for the detailed explanation. I think it definitely deserves 
some place in documentation.

Nikolai

21.06.2014 23:59, Chirag Chhatriwala wrote:
> I generally try to do the following:
>
> 1. perform a git clone on the branch or trunk.
> 2. perform "git log --grep="<svn_id>", grab the hashtag or commit id and
> note the date and time of that checkin and perform a "git checkout
> <commit id>", this will create a detached HEAD and will leave you at the
> <commit it> and nothing after it.
> 3. if you are going to add feeds, you need to do something similar for
> the feeds as well.. I.E. create a folder named "feeds" under your source
> and checkout your feeds (most likely git based now).
> 4. for each feeds you checked out, perform a "git log
> --before="YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss+Zone" format
> 5. grab the latest commit id and perform a "git checkout <feed commit
> id>" (for each feed checked out)
>
> This way you know that everything you are building is roughly the same
> age as the latest svn commit that  you're trying to replicate. You may
> end up missing a commit or two but you will be fairly close to building
> the version you want. Its not exact science but it is close enough.
> Otherwise you may end up checking out an old version of openwrt, but
> have it built against the latest pacakges/luci/routing/telephony feeds
> and things may (most likely will) break.
>
> It used to be easier when everything was svn based and you could just
> specify the svn id in your feeds in the format
> svn://feed.location@<svn_ID>. Things change so we adapt.
>
> Hope this helps. Let me know if this is not clear.
>
>
> Chirag
>
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