[GTALUG] Debian Linux as-a-router Guide

[Lennart Sorensen]

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.

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Len Sorensen