From 97520ef322b52bee2305132ed57e90737ea19710 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20Gr=C3=B6ber?= Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 18:22:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] aps: README refinements --- README.md | 17 +++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 2879e09..7959920 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,13 +1,22 @@ ITS WiFi Access Points Setup ============================ -We build the access points in use at the space using the OpenWrt image -builder. The deployed images are completely hands-off. No configuration of the -running firmware should be necessary as all the device specific setup is done -using `/etc/uci-defaults/` by keying off the device's MAC address. +This directory contains the scripts and configuration for the automated building +of OpenWrt image-build based firmware images. + +We use this to build fully pre-configured images for our 802.11 +access-points. The deployed images are completely hands-off. No configuration of +the running firmware should be necessary as all the device specific setup is +done using `/etc/uci-defaults/` by keying off the device's MAC address. See [`files/common/its/etc/uci-defaults/50-config-from-mac`](files/common/its/etc/uci-defaults/50-config-from-mac) for details. +Note that some of the files in this repository contain secrets, like +passwords. These files are stored using +[git-annex](https://git-annex.branchable.com/) which merely stores a hash in the +(public) git repo and ships the relevant file contents off to a fileserver or +other internal storage location. + Building Images ---------------