diff --git a/build_script/build.sh b/build_script/build.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+USER_DIR=/home/user
+
+GLUON_DIR=$USER_DIR/gluon
+SITE_DIR=$USER_DIR/Firmware-building/site_config
+
+EXPERIMENTAL_SITE=$SITE_DIR/experimental/site
+BETA_SITE=$SITE_DIR/beta/site
+STABLE_SITE=$SITE_DIR/stable/site
+
+# $1: site directory
+set_site_directory() {
+    pushd $GLUON_DIR
+
+    # if site file exists, remove it
+    if [ -a site ]; then
+        unlink site
+    fi
+    ln -s $1
+
+    popd $GLUON_DIR
+}
+
+build() {
+    pushd $GLUON_DIR
+
+    for TARGET in $(make list-targets); do
+        make -j16 GLUON_TARGET=$TARGET
+    done
+
+    popd
+}
+
+# $1: autoupdater branch
+move_output_images() {
+    pushd $GLUON_DIR
+
+    mv output/images output-images-$1
+
+    popd
+}
+
+#unset multiple env vars
+unset BUILD_EXPERIMENTAL BUILD_BETA BUILD_STABLE
+
+case $1 in
+    exp)
+        BUILD_EXPERIMENTAL=1
+        ;;
+
+    beta)
+        BUILD_BETA=1
+        ;;
+
+    stable)
+        BUILD_STABLE=1
+        ;;
+
+    all)
+        BUILD_EXPERIMENTAL=1
+        BUILD_BETA=1
+        BUILD_STABLE=1
+        ;;
+
+    *)
+        echo "fflux firmware building script"
+        echo "Usage: build.sh <all|exp|beta|stable>"
+        exit 1
+        ;;
+esac
+
+pushd $GLUON_DIR
+
+if [ -d $GLUON_DIR/output/images ]; then
+    echo "Error: output images directory contains images. Please remove them before building."
+    echo "Delete `gluon/output/images` directory and try again."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+set_site_directory() {
+    echo "Linking $1"
+}
+
+build() {
+    echo "Building images"
+}
+
+move_output_images() {
+    echo "Moving output images to output-images-$1"
+}
+
+if [ -n $BUILD_EXPERIMENTAL ]; then
+    set_site_directory $EXPERIMENTAL_SITE
+    build
+    move_output_images experimental
+fi
+
+if [ -n $BUILD_BETA ]; then
+    set_site_directory $BETA_SITE
+    build
+    move_output_images beta
+fi
+
+if [ -n $BUILD_STABLE ]; then
+    set_site_directory $STABLE_SITE
+    build
+    move_output_images stable
+fi
+
+popd
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diff --git a/build_script/freifunk_root.sh b/build_script/freifunk_root.sh
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+++ b/build_script/freifunk_root.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Installing QoL packages and then (after build-essential incl.) dependencies
+apt update && apt install -y htop tmux vim sudo mosh build-essential git python3 python-is-python3 python3-distutils ecdsautils gawk unzip libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libelf-dev wget rsync time qemu-utils
+
+# Create `user` user with `sudo` group
+useradd -ms /bin/bash -G sudo user
+# `sudo` group w/o password
+sed -i /etc/sudoers -re 's/^%sudo.*/%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL/g'
+
+mkdir -v /home/user/.ssh
+# my public key
+echo "ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIOLFCOqpPOTZEQiWcY9TyVQnMoc5bCYlxLaRKhiB/uxo xbr 2024-06-16" >> /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys
+# projects.c3l.lu public key
+echo "|1|X2M4bHKf8E+plhJ6KoDZzCfw5LI=|EpHLDWOmOq4SLelYTGd8SH+7hvU= ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIIXfRmGmfbxPoErs5lpTnz+PZRQdh0QvPGTiswxFkXOx" >> /home/user/.ssh/known_hosts
+chown -vR user:user /home/user/.ssh
+chmod -v 700 /home/user/.ssh
+chmod -v 600 /home/user/.ssh/*
+chmod -v 644 /home/user/.ssh/known_hosts
+# make a key to have access to projects.c3l.lu
+sudo -u user ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N '' -C 'freifunk-hetzner-builder' -f /home/user/.ssh/id_ed25519 <<<n
+echo ""
+echo "The ssh key is the following: "
+cat /home/user/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub
diff --git a/build_script/freifunk_user.sh b/build_script/freifunk_user.sh
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..049911b0aec79027c845f8a7b8b0d0f8bebfe0c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build_script/freifunk_user.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+BRANCH=$1
+EXPERIMENTAL="experimental"
+AUTOUPDATER_VER=${2:-$EXPERIMENTAL}
+if [ -z $BRANCH ]; then
+	echo "Usage: freifunk_user.sh [branch] (updater_version)"
+	echo ""
+	echo "branch: gluon release branch"
+	echo "updater_version: experimental, beta, stable. defaults to experimental"
+	exit 1
+fi
+git clone ssh://kallithea@projects.c3l.lu/freifunk/Firmware-building
+git clone https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon.git gluon -b "$BRANCH"
+ln -vs /home/user/Firmware-building/site_config/"${AUTOUPDATER_VER}"/site /home/user/gluon/site
+pushd /home/user/gluon/
+make update
+popd
+