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by josteink 1388 days ago
> I do love OpenWrt but the upgrade experience is still a pain because user-installed packages need to be reinstalled manually.

Just use image-builder. Or better, create a script which uses image-builder for you.

For me, upgrading to newer releases for my 7 OpenWRT devices, is mostly just updating a version number and waiting for the build to complete (a few minutes at tops).

It's not really hard.

I may have gone in a bit over-the-top, with makefile and dependencies at all[1], but at the core of things, it's not really hard.

[1] https://github.com/josteink/openwrt-build/