The missing upgrade-all feature for opkg. Drop into /etc/profile.d/ re-login and use `opkg update && opkg upgrade-all` to upgrade all packages

99-opkg-macros.sh

#!/bin/sh

__opkgx_append_to_list() {
    local _listfile="${1}"
    shift
    cp "${_listfile}" "${_listfile}.bak"
    for pkg in "$@"; do
        echo "${pkg}" >> "${_listfile}"
    done
    diff -u "${_listfile}.bak" "${_listfile}"
}

__opkgx_remove_from_list() {
    local _listfile="${1}"
    shift
    local _newlist=$(mktemp) && \
    echo "$@" | xargs printf -- '-e\0%s\0' | xargs -0 fgrep -xv "${_listfile}" > "${_newlist}"
    # intentionally not checking the exit code here to allow empty files
    # create a backup just in case
    cp "${_listfile}" "${_listfile}.bak"
    mv "${_newlist}" "${_listfile}"
    diff -u "${_listfile}.bak" "${_listfile}"
}

opkgx() {
    case "${1}" in
    upgrade-all)
        # https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/additional-software/opkg
        _upgradable="$(opkg list-upgradable | cut -f 1 -d ' ')"
        [ -z "${_upgradable}" ] || echo "${_upgradable}" | xargs opkg upgrade
        ;;
    upgrade-all-nokmod)
        _upgradable="$(opkg list-upgradable | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | grep -v '^kmod-')"
        [ -z "${_upgradable}" ] || echo "${_upgradable}" | xargs opkg upgrade
        ;;
    restore)
        echo '=> Removing masked packages...'
        [ -f /etc/removed ] && cat /etc/removed | xargs opkg remove
        echo '=> Restoring previously saved packages...'
        [ -f /etc/installed ] && cat /etc/installed | xargs opkg install
        ;;
    append)
        shift
        __opkgx_append_to_list /etc/installed "${@}"
        ;;
    remove)
        shift
        __opkgx_remove_from_list /etc/installed "${@}"
        ;;
    mask)
        shift
        __opkgx_append_to_list /etc/removed "${@}"
        ;;
    unmask)
        shift
        __opkgx_remove_from_list /etc/removed "${@}"
        ;;
    *)
        /bin/opkg "${@}"
        ;;
    esac
}