On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:42:34 -0300, Guilherme Salgado <salg...@canonical.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently changed l-m-c to take an hwpack, which is installed before > the image is built. To keep that change simple I had to unpack the > binary tarball into a tmp directory, install the hwpack, repack the > tarball and then continue with the image generation. This extra > unpacking/repacking of the binary tarball is obviously not ideal, so I'm > now refactoring l-m-c to make it possible to avoid it when installing an > hwpack. > > The one thing I'm not sure about is whether I should > > a) unpack the binary tarball to a tmp dir, install the hwpack (which > may cause lots of data to be written) and then move that to the SD card > or > b) unpack the tarball straight into the sd card (as is done currently) > and then install the hwpack > > I'm leaning towards a) because of the poor write speed of SD cards, but > if anybody knows of any reasons why I should go with b) now's the time > to tell me. :)
I realise it's a bit late now, but I agree with you, so I'm glad that's what you implemented :-) James _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
