Sysupgrade on x86

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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sysupgrade would be a command-line upgrade, similar functionality is available through LuCI.

The bare-bones approach is

  • Backup config (for safety)
  • sysupgrade (which will, by default, create its own config backup and restore it)
  • Reinstall user-installed packages

Confirmed on an ext4-based system running under VirtualBox that

sysupgrade /tmp/openwrt-18.06.2-x86-64-combined-ext4.img.gz

obtained from http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.2/targets/x86/64/openwrt-18.06.2-x86-64-combined-ext4.img.gz upgraded a 18.06.1 instance to 18.06.2 with expected configuration preserved.

For a recent, quick overview see

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