[OpenWrt-Devel] opkg upgrade all

Michal Hrusecky Michal.Hrusecky at nic.cz
Wed Mar 30 01:30:45 EDT 2016


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.Hrusecky at 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/
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> -- 
> 
> Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca
> luizluca at gmail.com
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