Bug 8349

Inrtoduce a dist-upgrade command that update only feed files in order to perform a distribution upgrade.

Originally reported by stefano.cordibella, Apr 2, 2014
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#2 peteru711 (Oct 15, 2014)
How should this feature work?

In my case the feed configuration is owned by a package:

 # opkg search /etc/opkg/mips32el-feed.conf
 oe-alliance-feeds-configs - 1.0-r16

So, to cause a distro upgrade, I'd have the user upgrade the feed package first.

How would the "dist-upgrade" command work? Would it not be the same as:

 # opkg install http://my.new.feed/my-feeds_new.version.ipk


#3 paul.betafive (Oct 16, 2014)
You'd have to look at what dpkg/apt does on dist-upgrade. I haven't looked at this and don't plan to any time soon.

If your feed config is in a package, you can set the hold flag on the package so it doesn't get automatically updated. Then you can write a dist-upgrade shell script to unhold, upgrade and then re-hold that package, then do a full 'opkg update && opkg upgrade' to pull packages from the new feeds. If any specific post dist-upgrade commands are needed, they can be added as to a postinst script for the package which contains the feed config.