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by c0l0 1388 days ago
There is a VERY elegant solution to this problem, called "attended sysupgrade", that is not as widely known as it should be.

It's probably best explained in a video on what may be the best youtube channel on OpenWrt-related things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFTPA6GkJjg

Or, if you prefer textual information: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/attended.sy... (OpenWrt's infra is kinda slow today for me, must be many people checking out the new release :))
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oynqr 1388 days ago
Wow, I've been running OpenWRT for years and never heard of this, thanks. Although I suppose it does nothing to resolve config upgrade issues, right?
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c0l0 1388 days ago
It does exactly as much as using `sysupgrade` with any other suitable image will or would do :) So yes, limitations apply - but for most users with a bunch of custom installed packages, this is enough of a game changer regardless.
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