On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 10:54:10AM +0100, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote:
> > there doesn't appear to be anything hard about having the build bots
> > include a file into /etc which contains the _current_ repository
> > url, subdirectory, and image name.
>
> you forget that up until very recently the same
Hi,
> i actually had that typed out already, but deleted it because it seems
> like a complete no-brainer to me. there doesn't appear to be anything
> hard about having the build bots include a file into /etc which contains
> the _current_ repository url, subdirectory, and image name.
you forget
On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 08:38:04PM +0100, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote:
> Right now it cannot be provided unless we provide suitable meta data for
> that on the server side or - preferably - inside the image itself.
>
i actually had that typed out already, but deleted it because it seems
like a complete
Hi Oswald,
> scripts for doing just that have been posted years ago, so i'm wondering
> why such a mechanism wasn't integrated upstream. am i missing something,
> or did just nobody think it important enough to do?
as far as I remember there never was a clean patch series proposed to
implement su
On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 11:31:01PM +0100, Magnus Kroken wrote:
> On 07.01.2017 19.04, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > the idea would be to simply dump the list of user-installed packages into
> > a config file which is preserved by sysupgrade. now, firstboot would see
> > that file and start opgk wit
When I do upgrades, I save the list of "extra" installed packages
(looking at /overlay/upper/usr/lib/opkg/info/*.control).
Maybe we could save this "list of extra packages" when the
configuration is saved (like before the upgrade) somewhere.
It's useful and very "cheap".
When this "list" is presen
Hi Oswald
On 07.01.2017 19.04, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
the idea would be to simply dump the list of user-installed packages into
a config file which is preserved by sysupgrade. now, firstboot would see
that file and start opgk with it - that's usually going to just work, as
the network configu
moin,
i'm wondering what could be done about the nuisance that after a
sysupgrade one needs to manually re-install the user-installed packages.
the documented process is pretty much algorithmic, so it seems like a
shame that it's not (mostly) automated.
the idea would be to simply dump the list o
