To build Gluon, after checkeing out the repository change to the source root directory to perform the following commands: git clone git://github.com/freifunk-gluon/site-ffhl.git site # Get the Freifunk Lübeck site repository - or use your own! make update # Get other repositories used by Gluon make # Build Gluon When calling make, the OpenWRT build environment is prepared/updated. To rebuild the images only, just use: make images The built images can be found in the directory `images`. For the build reserve 6GB of disk space. The building requires packages for `subversion`, ncurses headers (`libncurses-dev`) and zlib headers (`libz-dev`).` There are three levels of `make clean`: make clean will only clean the Gluon-specific files; make cleanall will also call `make clean` on the OpenWRT tree, and make dirclean will do all this, and call `make dirclean` on the OpenWRT tree. # Development To update the repositories used by Gluon, just adjust the commit IDs in `modules` and rerun make update `make update` also applies the patches that can be found in the directories found in `patches`; the resulting branch will be called `patched`, while the commit specified in `modules` can be refered to by the branch `base`. make unpatch sets the repositories to the `base` branch, make patch re-applies the patches by resetting the `patched` branch to `base` and calling `git am` for the patch files. Calling `make` or a similar command after calling `make unpatch` is generally not a good idea. After new patches have been commited on top of the patched branch (or existing commits since the base commit have been edited or removed), the patch directories can be regenerated using make update-patches If applying a patch fails because you have changed the base commit, the repository will be reset to the old `patched` branch and you can try rebasing it onto the new `base` branch yourself and after that call `make update-patches` to fix the problem. Always call `make update-patches` after making changes to a module repository as `make update` will overwrite your commits, making `git reflog` the only way to recover them!