Image builder not placing custom config files on compiled image

karlovalentin · 2018-10-08T09:02:17.837Z

Hi.
I’m using the latest version of the imagebuilder (GitHub - gl-inet/imagebuilder: Warning！Please look at 'GL.iNET Imagebuilder Introduction' section.)
I need an image preconfigured with different packages and some custom config files.
I’m creating the image using the command
./gl_image -p ar300m16 -e “openssh-sftp-server nano htop curl tcpdump usbutils etc…”
and I’m placing my custom config files on
imagebuilder/3.0/openwrt-imagebuilder-ar71xx-generic/files/etc/config/mycustomconfig

when i flash the device, all the packages are there, but my custom config files are not.
Where do i need to do? I’m placing the files on the wrong directory OR do i need to specify the files location at the moment of execute the gl_image command?
thanks!!!

Johnex · 2018-10-08T09:53:28.596Z

You are placing them in the wrong directory. They go in the root of the imagebuilder, in the files folder.
So imagebuilder/files following the usual folder structure required.

RVIT · 2019-04-09T04:25:12.667Z

I am sure I’m just missing something obvious, but I cant seem to get my files included in my image. Have tried creating a folder imagebuilder/files, but nothing gets copied over to the root directory in my image. command to build the image is simply python2.7 gl_image -p x750 -e "wget vnstat minicom".

the build completes but when I flash it, the extra packages are installed but none of the custom config files are there.

alzhao · 2019-04-09T05:29:24.208Z

Where did you put your config files?

RVIT · 2019-04-09T10:41:59.511Z

imagebuilder/files/etc/
imagebuilder/files/etc/config
imagebuilder/files/etc/init.d
imagebuilder/files/usr/bin

kyson-lok · 2019-04-10T06:25:06.834Z

You have to add the files path to images.json.

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RVIT · 2019-04-13T00:25:15.687Z

Yes, thank you. It turns out there were some initialization scripts overwriting my config settings. Scripting my configuration in /etc/uci-defaults instead seemed to do the trick (probably since I was able to make my script the last to run).