> Op 21 jul. 2020, om 11:06 heeft m...@adrianschmutzler.de het volgende 
> geschreven:
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: openwrt-devel [mailto:openwrt-devel-boun...@lists.openwrt.org]
>> On Behalf Of Alberto Bursi
>> Sent: Dienstag, 21. Juli 2020 09:48
>> To: openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org; m...@adrianschmutzler.de
>> Subject: Re: Restoring (old) config backups and
>> 
>> 
>> On 20/07/20 19:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Any thoughts on this?  I am certainly to have overlooked a lot of
>>> stuff, especially if it is present only on master.  Also, handling of
>>> an uci-defaults "reset" (so that they'd run again) in
>>> non-initramfs/overlayfs based system is likely to pose some challenges
>>> depending on how it is implemented...
>>> 
>> 
>> Adrian Shmultzer has been recently adding some infrastructure in the
>> sysupgrade to stop it if there are incompatible features that would break
>> core functionality, so that the user won't just sysupgrade with the same
>> config and land in an inaccessible device. Maybe his work can/should be
>> extended to alter the creating/restoring config backups logic too, as it's 
>> really
>> doing more or less the same thing already.
> 
> Actually, my solution implements the config "on device" as a uci parameter, 
> so the "on device" version is actually not the version of the firmware 
> installed, but of the config installed. Therefore, one may indeed go that 
> road to prevent flashing an incompatible backup. However, I don't think you 
> can use it for much else.
> 
> Despite, I still have received no positive feedback about that change at all, 
> so I'm not sure whether it will go in at all.
Good reason to chime in. That proposal for compatibility checks seemed very 
well thought over and as such I would welcome its implementation.
Bye,
Paul

> 
> Best
> 
> Adrian
> 
>> 
>> -Alberto
>> 
>> 
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