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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Every single time I've setup OpenWRT, keeping it updated was much more painful than anything else, even ASUS WRT-Merlin was easier to keep updated.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Are you trying to say you're not a fan of needing to reinstall packages after an upgrade? It's so simple with these easy to remember commands:

opkg update
cat /etc/backup/installed_packages.txt | grep overlay | sed s/\ *overlay// | xargs opkg install