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What happens to installed packages on a sysupgrade in OpenWRT?

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Mar 15, 20268389 views
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I've just upgraded my OpenWRT router from 10.03.1-rc4 to rc5 (testing). It looks like all my installed packages are gone. Is that the expected behaviour? If yes, I should be able to just reinstalled them and load the configs from the backup, correct?

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You can backup your list of installed packages: (Put it into /etc/config folder so it will get retained between firmware updates) and then after the update:

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