[Battlemesh] wshaper equivalent and smaller - (making the firmware smaller)

[Bastian Bittorf]

* cmsv <cmsv at wirelesspt.net> [13.10.2013 12:29]:
> wget get can fetch but what is the mechanism that is used by opkg ?

untar'ing a tarball over filesystem and write metadata.

> for example removing
> [ ] Remove ipkg/opkg status data files in final images
> also helps but seems to break the possibility of installing an upgrade
> package or a package. Am i correct ?

yes

> I also wondered if it is a good or bad idea to remove:
> [*] Compile the kernel with Debug FileSystem enabled

do you use the debugfs?

> >> let us know, if it helps. for 4mb routers, the image
> >> should not exceed 3.6mb
> right now and for my testing model:
> 3.8M openwrt-ar71xx-generic-dir-615-c1-squashfs-factory.bin
> 3.2M openwrt-ar71xx-generic-dir-615-c1-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
> (includes some extra needed packages and scrips)

ok, the looks good - and you can even add 800k (400k compressed)
and you still have a useable image.

bye, bastian