Note that, though I am not new to Linux per se, I AM new to OpenWRT, especially as applied to routers and such like.
The referenced article, along with this article on the OpenWRT web page, (https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/additional-software/opkg#upgrading_packages), indicates that mass upgrades are potentially dangerous, almost to the point of "Don't even THINK of running e2fsck on a mounted partition" severity - and other sections indicate that individual updates themselves can be a dicey matter.
However, the comments within the original post referenced above vary widely - ranging from "just don't" to others who say that updates are an important part of maintaining system security.
My original assumption, (based on previous "big package" Linux experience), is that package maintainers have a responsibility to ensure that package updates will successfully update an existing package - and if there's a significant incompatibility and/or dependency change, it should be a different, (though related), package.
So, what's the truth of this? Maybe I should just stick with the stock functionality of my router instead of opening the can of worms that is OpenWRT?
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I posted this on Stack Exchange at Should I even THINK about upgradng packages in OpenWRT?, and didn't receive any reasonable answer as the majority of the answers boiled down to "it depends", so I am asking it here.
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Ref: The related posting at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/400231/how-do-i-upgrade-all-of-my-installed-packages-in-openwrt
Note that, though I am not new to Linux per se, I AM new to OpenWRT, especially as applied to routers and such like.
The referenced article, along with this article on the OpenWRT web page, (https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/additional-software/opkg#upgrading_packages), indicates that mass upgrades are potentially dangerous, almost to the point of "Don't even THINK of running e2fsck on a mounted partition" severity - and other sections indicate that individual updates themselves can be a dicey matter.
However, the comments within the original post referenced above vary widely - ranging from "just don't" to others who say that updates are an important part of maintaining system security.
My original assumption, (based on previous "big package" Linux experience), is that package maintainers have a responsibility to ensure that package updates will successfully update an existing package - and if there's a significant incompatibility and/or dependency change, it should be a different, (though related), package.
So, what's the truth of this? Maybe I should just stick with the stock functionality of my router instead of opening the can of worms that is OpenWRT?
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Any comments and guidance would be gratefully appreciated.
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