I have an ASUS ASUS WL500GP which has been running a circa 2.6.23.1 version of Kamikaze which I built a while back. I have my root filesystem on a 1MB USB flash stick. The USB stick overlays the in-router flash, so if I shut it down, remove the flash and start it back up, I'd be back to when I first installed this with a fresh root filesystem.
So, what's the best way to go about upgrading this thing considering I want to use a build I am about to start right now having just done an svn update? With a "normal" Linux distro I'd typically just do something like "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade", go for coffee and then come back and reboot into my new kernel. I'd guess OpenWRT is going to be a bit more of a pain than that. I do plan to duplicate the USB stick to another before I do anything for both emergency back-out plans as well as "pre-upgrade archive". So, am I back to flashing the new build onto the unit as if I were starting from scratch? That seems like an awfully "step backwards" upgrade path, which basically puts me back to square 1 where I have to reconfigure everything from scratch. Is there a more "upgradable" way to achieve this? Thots? b.
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