[OpenWrt-Devel] RFC: Preserving smbpasswd & dnsmasq.time across sysupgrade

Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant kevin at darbyshire-bryant.me.uk
Thu Jul 30 08:20:02 EDT 2015


Thanks Bastian, apologies for delayed reply. I'll check that info out. :-)

Thanks

Kevin

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Cheers,

Kevin at Darbyshire-Bryant.me.uk

Sent from my phone, apologies for brevity, spelling & top posting

> On 27 Jul 2015, at 09:14, Bastian Bittorf <bittorf at bluebottle.com> wrote:
> 
> * Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <kevin at darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> [26.07.2015 16:35]:
>> The next question is how?  It looks like a few other packages create a
>> subdir in 'keep.d' with a file containing a list of files that should be
>> preserved by default.  I would anticipate creating 'samba' & 'dnsmasq'
>> subdirs though the package Makefiles.  A better way?
> 
> they should just be marked as 'conffiles' in the package itself andi
> these files are automatically choosen for including into sysupgrade.tgz
> 
> the magic is done in add_uci_conffiles() line 100 in
> file package/base-files/files/sbin/sysupgrade -> /sbin/sysupgrade
> 
> bye, bastian
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