Two OpenWrt updates

Posted Apr 21, 2022 16:10 UTC (Thu) by Nahor (subscriber, #51583)
In reply to: Two OpenWrt updates by lutchann
Parent article: Two OpenWrt updates

They are able to keep the configuration files, why are they not able to keep track of manually added packages and automatically reinstall them? And why can't they keep track if the default configuration files have changed between the old and new version of the packages and not complain then when the user manually modified it?

Two OpenWrt updates

Posted Apr 21, 2022 18:30 UTC (Thu) by Thalience (subscriber, #4217) [Link]

In the snapshot releases, there is now an option to have the upgrade process provide a file with the list of manually installed packages for easy re-installation! There are a bunch of obvious things that could go wrong with having the upgrade process automatically download and reinstall the packages, so handling all the corner cases there would be a lot of work.

Doing something smarter about config files where the defaults have changed would be a desirable feature, although I don't think that automatically accepting the new defaults is always the right answer.

I believe that patches would be welcome in support of either of these ideas.