diff --git a/doc/openwrt.md b/doc/openwrt.md
index adfff6c6..32cae4f7 100644
--- a/doc/openwrt.md
+++ b/doc/openwrt.md
@@ -5,8 +5,10 @@ These instructions assume can build an OpenWrt firmware for your hardware:
   - you will likely also want to install nginx from the main feed and configure it as a reverse proxy to the databag service
 
 ## Databag is currently included as a custom feed
+  - clone the custom feed into the OpenWrt repo:
+  -     git clone https://github.com/balzack/openwrt-databag.git
   - in feeds.conf at the root of the repository add:
-  -     src-git databag https://github.com/balzack/openwrt-databag.git
+  -     src-cpy databag ./openwrt-databag/
   - update the package list by running:
   -     scripts/feeds update databag
   - install the pacakge by running: