Dear @Manoj, @Anonyme, @julek and everyone else involved with the incredible efforts so far! I would love to help test - some constraints however:
The J5 phone is my only one at the moment and I even depend on it for an internet hot-spot, so really cannot afford bricking it either
I’m on Mac, a complete n00b at this and also don’t have 120Gb space free at the moment.
Will try to find more disk space and attempt a build asap. Yet, installing it seems problematic. Please feel free to pm me if there are ways to help even with those parameters.
All the best and thanks again for sticking with this! So important keep perfectly functioning phones running and limit all the technological waste.
I can try your script on my building server
I’ll just have to remove the “:5000” from Docker commands; not a problem as they work fine on standard HTTP/S.
I’ll have to perform a maintenance on the server after finishing current build, so I expect to launch it by this evening.
@mrpoppins : when I have more money I will dedicate my J5 to “science” and switch to an /e/OS refurbished S7 Edge. Anyway do not run the script on a laptop. The build process is rather CPU intensive and your laptop cooler system may not like it…
@Anonyme@smu44 : what the script does is just automate the how-to-build wiki page and put a convenient way to store the roomservice.xml files - nothing less, nothing more. I hesitated to put the vendor name in the roomservice.xml file locations but it would have complicated a little bit the script. KiSS Anyway I’d like to get feedback on it, feedback I did not get as of now. I could make it work on two different Debian hosts - but interrupted the build on the second one once the Docker phase was started because the host cooling system was not exactly happy - a laptop.
Thanks @julek and @Anonyme, a bit of a chicken-egg scenario I guess. Once the big tech malware is gone there will be so much space, performance and smiles again All this heroic work is very much appreciated, good luck!
For the time being, you could have used https://drop.infini.fr/ for instance (more servers can be found at https://framadrop.org but this one can kept files at the size of a ROM for 60 days instead of 24h for other servers).
Okay thanks ! I did not know drop.infini.fr - will do this later on.
I understand your Docker point. It is unflexible which is true, but helps greatly when you wish someone else to be able to rebuild images without the “it works at my host” issue. Oh and don’t tell me about using a Docker container on production servers except on very specific cases !
Great ! Thanks a lot ! It validates both the script and my patches. Thse (thanks to @Anonyme and @harvey186 ) are kernel patches, not on the C code but on makefiles, and inclusion of another thing that was not included otherwise, wireguard.
Nice work everyone, especially @julek for pushing ahead with this ! Will someone please notify us n00bs here when something is usable please …not sure what these builds imply? And please let us know where coffee / beer funds can be donated.
The situation with my J5 phone is getting pretty grim. It came new with Facebook pre-installed without any option to uninstall. Now, it is filled with pre-installed junk from Samsung that one cannot uninstall. Even after moving all apps and images I added to SD card, the Samsung junk is filling up the 16Gb internal storage - making it close to useless.
Are these tactics even legal? Clearly Samsung tries hard to force me to buy a new device. Guess what, it will not be Samsung
Same for me it reinstalled Chrome. I’m waiting to get more money to buy the /e/OS S7 and then dedicate my phone to science since I cannot affort this until then.
Beware that it is an unofficial build so for security patches it will be nevertheless quite funky at first.
Anyway I’d like to get feedback on it, feedback I did not get as of now. 
I could make it work on two different Debian hosts - but interrupted the build on the second one once the Docker phase was started because the host cooling system was not exactly happy - a laptop.
! Will someone please notify us n00bs here when something is usable please …not sure what these builds imply? And please let us know where coffee / beer funds can be donated.