Now hopefully, your issue is related to corrupt or otherwise unusable file.
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Brent <brent...@hotmail.com> wrote: > The MD5 sum seems like a good approach. For anyone reading this, I found > this link useful: > > > http://askubuntu.com/questions/318530/generate-md5-checksum-for-all-files-in-a-directory > > find -exec md5sum "{}" \; > checklist.chk > > md5sum -c checklist.chk # runs through the list to check them > > > > On Saturday, September 6, 2014 6:33:33 PM UTC-4, William Hermans wrote: >> >> Define "something gets messed up". You're going to have to know what this >> something *is* before solving the issue. But perhaps you could use an MD5 >> sum to verify the file ? Then when there is a mismatch you delete the >> target file and try again ? >> >> >> On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Brent <bren...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I have a Qt application that runs at start up. Currently, I update my >>> application by allowing the user to press a button inside of my application >>> which copies the updated application files from the USB drive to the eMMC. >>> It then sets a flag inside of a text file to "1", and reboots. When my >>> start up script is ran, it firsts checks the text file to see if there is a >>> "1", and if so it overwrites the old files with the new ones and then >>> launches the application. This works most of the time, but there are >>> occasions where something gets messed up and the new application does not >>> start. >>> >>> I was wondering if there is a better way of updating my application. >>> Could I use opkg to do this, and if so, how? Will it allow my application >>> to be running while it is updating it? What is the proper way to do this? >>> Thanks in advance for your help! >>> >>> -- >>> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "BeagleBoard" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to beagleboard...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
