[Solved] Upgrade to new version - retain packages?

[jeff]

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18.06.01: after opkg upgrade uhttpd crashes on HTTPS connect

With any re-flash / upgrade, you want to make sure that the sysupgrade process retains the proper files. sysupgrade -l will list the files that it will back up. The list can be modified with entries in /etc/sysupgrade.conf Adding new packages usually adds their config, but you should confirm. The list of packages can be obtained with opkg list-installed and there are some scripts floating here to try to narrow that down to "user-installed" packages (those not in the ROM). The version of sysup…

for some suggestions, including the method that master uses to get a list of installed packages and if they are ROM-based or "user installed".