Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca - 5:57 30.03.16 wrote: > Just like any Linux distribution, it is recommended to not mix a kernel > from a different release with runtime from another release. However, if > there is no incompatibility between them, you are free to do as you want. > The more distance each kernel is, the more likely to have > incompatibilities. > > OpenWRT, although, is not developed with upgrade in mind. So, packages that > are renamed will be kept at the old version, and new package will not be > installed if not required by an existing package. You might get a mix of > kernel, old and new packages at the end. If, by chance, they are all > compatible, it will work nicely. > > You'll need to mix old and new repos as any new kernel module must come > from the old repo. I don't know how well opkg deal with this. > > Besides that, there is the extra space used. I guess jffs2 is also worse in > performance and compression. > > It is just no good reason to do an upgrade and not a reflash. If you and > the packages are doing the backup correctly, you just need to reinstall all > extra packages after the new system is installed.
Yep, I understand all those. My question was whether upgrade all is disabled just because of this ideological stuff and in hope that users wouldn't find and try one of the posts I linked or whether there is anything really broken. > Em qua, 30 de mar de 2016 02:30, Michal Hrusecky <michal.hruse...@nic.cz> > escreveu: > > > Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca - 1:41 30.03.16 wrote: > > > Michal, > > > > > > Google is your friend ;-) > > > > He pretends he is, but didn't provided the answer I was looking for, just > > plenty of workarounds I mentioned ;-) > > > > > But I'll easy your search > > > https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/techref/opkg > > > > > > Check the upgrade description. > > > > Reread and the only thing that is mentioned there is general discourage to > > do > > upgrades and be careful what you are doing and that there are generally no > > updates available apart from trunk and that opkg will not upgrade kernel. > > No > > technical problem and no specific issue with upgrade all. > > > > > Regards > > > > > > Em ter, 29 de mar de 2016 às 04:45, Michal Hrusecky < > > michal.hruse...@nic.cz> > > > escreveu: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > there is a patch in OpenWRT that disables option to upgrade all > > packages > > > > and > > > > allows upgrading only specified packages which leads to plenty of > > answers > > > > online how to do that[1][2][3][...] Does anybody remembers the reason > > for > > > > disabling it? The only thing I can think of is discouraging people from > > > > doing > > > > upgrades and encourage them to reflash new squashfs image as they > > might not > > > > have enough free space. But as you can see, people will try and do it > > > > anyway so > > > > it might be a good idea to let the command there as it will be probably > > > > safer > > > > with integrated command than with random scripts on internet. Or is > > there > > > > some > > > > other reason and some real problem? > > > > > > > > [1] https://sandalov.org/blog/1777/ > > > > [2] > > > > > > https://www.codeden.net/2015/05/upgrade-all-openwrt-packages-with-a-single-line-command/ > > > > [3] http://blog.vanutsteen.nl/2014/01/12/openwrt-upgrade-all-packages/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > openwrt-devel mailing list > > > > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > > > > https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca > > > luizl...@gmail.com > > > -- > > Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca > luizl...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
