Hi Folks You may know I am the author of the new upgrade function on LEAF Bering and therefore take all this with a grain of salt. This is just to inform you all about a new way to keep your router up to date (available as of 5.2.2)
I am very lazy in updating my router as in the past this was alway connected with a few imponderables on my installation, despite it being pretty simple. I am probably the unkonwn factor in this process. But sometimes one has to bite the bullet and go for it. I was ready to jump in the cold water and test my own software in a non lab environment. My current installation was a ALIX running 5.2.1 with 3 network interfaces the usual shorewall and dhcpclient and dnscache, some sshd, and bridging of two adapters, nothing real fancy. Being close to the development environment my router has a current config.lrp with the upgrade function included) Being still a bit chicken I chose to watch the process upgrade -v .... many lines .... many lines upgrade: iterate_deps checking wget.lrp upgrade: retrieve http://sourceforge.net/p/leaf/packages/ci/5.2.3/tree/i386/wget.lrp upgrade: patch_package wget.lrp upgrade: copy /tmp/wget.lrp /tmp/tmp.WN8srn upgrade: iterate_deps checking wireless.lrp upgrade: retrieve http://sourceforge.net/p/leaf/packages/ci/5.2.3/tree/i386/wireless.lrp upgrade: patch_package wireless.lrp upgrade: copy /tmp/wireless.lrp /tmp/tmp.WN8srn upgrade: iterate_deps checking wpasupp.lrp upgrade: retrieve http://sourceforge.net/p/leaf/packages/ci/5.2.3/tree/i386/wpasupp.lrp upgrade: patch_package wpasupp.lrp upgrade: copy /tmp/wpasupp.lrp /tmp/tmp.WN8srn upgrade: upgrade terminated successfully I used lrcfg to save the current configdb as it is patched by the upgrade process then reboot (in the blind, I decided I did not want to interfere with the boot process so I did not connect a serial cable) About 30 seconds later I have now gatekeeper# cat /etc/motd LEAF Bering-uClibc 5.2.3 Rev 1 uClibc 0.9.33.2 at gatekeeper Linux 4.1.15-geode #1 Mon Dec 28 21:49:42 CET 2015 This mail is using the above mentioned router. I encourage you to test this function, we will try to improve it even more with backup, cloning and web interfaces. Sorry for the noise :-) Erich ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
