Hi, > (I should first say that I don't know enough about the ar71xx-ath79 migration > to know if this idea will work, but I don't recall seeing it mentioned > before.) > > What if we add a migration package for 18.06 that ar71xx users can opt-in and > install, which (when the user initiates the process) will migrate their > config and perform an upgrade to 19.07 (ath79)? Their config would > be > broken for 18.06 after the first step, but if the sysupgrade completes > successfully then their config works for 19.07 after the reboot. (Would be > nice if there is a way to roll back the config changes if the sysupgrade > fails.) > > This is perhaps a variation of the transition image idea from Peter Geis, but > this would be less intrusive to the overall upgrade process (at least for me).
I like that idea in general, because it will spare us from determining whether the system needs to be updated (we will outsource that to the user for this particular case). Disadvantages are obviously that the user has to be (made) aware of that solution, so it's still not a "seamless" upgrade. And we still would have to prepare a suitable upgrade script, which we do not have at all ATM (though this might make it easier to write one). Best Adrian _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
