[OpenWrt-Users] is there a "make allpackages"?

[RB]

Answering all your questions in one:

> one more thing -- i assume that what you're describing will not only
>  build all those packages, but will build a monstrously large .trx

No, actually this option seems to default everything to building as a
module and only builds in what's absolutely necessary.

> just to clarify something, are we discussing stuff that is still
> applicable under the latest repo checkout of openwrt?

Yes, just synced a few minutes ago and validated.

> that fourth option in "make menuconfig" -- i'd still physically have
> to copy those packages under the "package" directory?  (and, if that's
> true, i'd assume that just symlinking that package would work just as
> well, no?)

I've never done the 'make package/symlinks', but reading through what
it does, that should be fine.  Seeing that it does an 'svn co' on
'packages' every time, though, you could/should probably save some
bandwidth and time and just do the links yourself:

cd $BUILD
ln -sf /path/to/full/svn/mirror feeds/packages
ln -sf /path/to/full/svn/mirror package/openwrt-packages

That is, presuming you sync the entire OpenWRT tree instead of just
'trunk'.  And yes, manually symlinking individual packages should work
as well.