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What are you talking about? There’s literally a sysupgrade-image you can use to update in place without losing your config. Has it been a while since you used
by josteink 5y ago
What are you talking about?
There’s literally a sysupgrade-image you can use to update in place without losing your config.
Has it been a while since you used OpenWRT last time?
- opan 5y agoSince I used it? No. Running it on many things. Upgraded it? Yeah. I've done a lot of fresh installs but don't usually upgrade the system because it doesn't seem trivial compared to running one command occasionally on the rolling release distros I'm used to. What you're describing is unknown to me. It sounds a bit OpenBSD-like, maybe. I also consider OpenBSD to be unreasonably annoying to upgrade (although it's been a while since I tried with that either, I heard it got better).
- josteink 5y agoYou can always just “opkg upgrade” if that’s your cup of tea. That won’t necessarily update the kernel-image though which is often stored directly on some MTD-partitions, so flashing the sysupgrade image is the recommended approach if you want to make sure everything is up to date. And it’s literally just uploading one firmware file to one web-ui. It’s not like it’s hard to do it particularly involved or time-consuming. If you’ve been using OpenWRT at all I’m kinda surprised you’ve actually been able to miss them. They’re pretty much front and center in the firmware download pages and referenced in every single release note, more or less.