Handling of renamed or dropped upstream packages

[SvenRoederer]

in freifunk-berlin/firmware#755 (comment) you are referencing the "#get the list of packages and compare" code.

How do you handle packages that have been dropped or renamed ?

[Akira25]

Currently the script does not deal with that. The script would try to install them at every reboot of the router.

Maybe that could be a nice solution:
Every package, on which opkg fails, could be saved at a list at /root/autoupdate.error.

[SvenRoederer]

Just seen and probably helpful:

opkg status libuci-lua
Status: install user installed

a package installed in the image will report:

Status: install ok installed

So filtering out the status might reduce the packages you have to take care of.