On Sat, 9 Sept 2023 at 15:07, Lennart Sorensen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Use "make menuconfig" to customize your image and add packages, save the changes and then execute: ./scripts/diffconfig.sh > diffconfig The "diffconfig" file will contain all your customizations and added packages. Next time you are about to build an image, execute: cp diffconfig .config make defconfig If you want to put custom files in your image, like for example your current configuration in /etc/config/* create <buildroot>/files/ and copy your files there. They will be baked into the image. For more details, see https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/toolchain/use-buildsystem After that, you can build your image with
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