Owut: OpenWrt Upgrade Tool

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Yeah, that's good stuff but as you say, sort of out-of-scope for this work. That sounds like it needs some fundamental changes to the core build system...

owut is really just a way to get to the ASU server build api (as are auc, LuCI Attended Sysupgrade and Firmware Selector), and ASU server is really just a fancy wrapper around the downloads site and imagebuilders. None of these actually know anything about "doing builds", they just set imagebuilder values and grab the resulting image.

In fact, you can write your own upgrade tool by just filling in a json blob and POSTing it to https://sysupgrade.openwrt.org/api/v1/build. Conceptually, it's pretty simple.

{
    "client": "owut/2024.06.04",
    "target": "x86/64",
    "profile": "generic",
    "version": "SNAPSHOT",
    "version_code": "r26554-4edde98768",
    "filesystem": "ext4",
    "diff_packages": true,
    "rootfs_size_mb": 512,
    "packages": [
        "auc",
        "base-files",
... all your other packages ...
        "vim-full",
        "wget-ssl"
    ]
}
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