Thank you Ole for the instructions! indeed I could just extract opt/Qtopia from a fresh .jffs image whenever new one becomes available, BUT that would not give me easy way to upgrade the rest of the packages (non-qpe) to the same state as in that image... I am not sure how much that is important though... (events/avahi/mediaserver or whatever else qpe relies on).
I wonder if OpenMokoMakefile's qtopia target would substitute your directions for how to build from sources... lets see... On Fri, 01 Aug 2008, Ole Kliemann wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 03:32:52PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > Is there an easy way to upgrade qtopia installation without reflashing > > whole rootfs? since /opt/Qtopia is not a part of any package according > > to opkg search, thus is not 'opkg upgrade'able. 1 possibility I see is > > to keep /home/root on a flash and manually mount it to preserve at least > > personal settings and aphone book, but that would require manual > > remounting after flashing. May be there is a better way?? > You can upgrade Qtopia like this: > shutdown Qtopia (/etc/init.d/qpe stop) > remove /opt/Qtopia > copy new Qtopia to /opt/Qtopia (via scp) > That's pretty straight forward. Tricky part is where to get new Qtopia > as tarball or whatever to copy it. One possibility is to compile > yourself. It's not difficult and you are always up-to-date. The > precompiled images are not so often updated. > Get the Qtopia toolchain for FR [1]. Unpacking it to / will install into > /opt/toolchains/arm920t-eabi/ > Get the latest snapshot [2]. > Create a build dir and run configure -device ficgta01 then build it. > Ole > [1] http://www.qtopia.net/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?lid=38 > [2] ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qtopia/snapshots/ > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- .-. =------------------------------ /v\ ----------------------------= Keep in touch // \\ (yoh@|www.)onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko /( )\ ICQ#: 60653192 Linux User ^^-^^ [175555] _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
