9 Sep
2023
9 Sep
'23
12:07 p.m.
On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 01:25:15PM -0400, Val Kulkov via talk wrote:
To the best of my knowledge, OpenWRT retains all manually installed packages during system upgrade if you use their "sysupgrade" utility, with the exception of the x86_64 platform. On x86_64, upgrading is indeed a pain. But then there is the "Attended Sysupgrade", which I have not tried yet: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/attended.sysupgrade
I have to reinstall packages after every sysupgrade. It will keep a list of packages you installed, but it sure doesn't install them for you. I think they have an option now to generate images with a list of extra packages for you. I haven't looked at that yet. -- Len Sorensen