Re: [beagleboard] How to properly update my application

2014-09-09 Thread Brent
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

Re: [beagleboard] How to properly update my application

2014-09-09 Thread William Hermans
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:

Re: [beagleboard] How to properly update my application

2014-09-07 Thread Frank Hunleth
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Brent Sink brent.s...@gmail.com wrote: I can't quite define it, but something seems to get corrupted. When the new corrupted application runs, it only shows a white rectangle, rather than the application. I guess I was wondering how others update their own

[beagleboard] How to properly update my application

2014-09-06 Thread Brent
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

Re: [beagleboard] How to properly update my application

2014-09-06 Thread William Hermans
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

Re: [beagleboard] How to properly update my application

2014-09-06 Thread Brent Sink
I can't quite define it, but something seems to get corrupted. When the new corrupted application runs, it only shows a white rectangle, rather than the application. I guess I was wondering how others update their own software applications - if they do something similar to what I'm doing or if

Re: [beagleboard] How to properly update my application

2014-09-06 Thread John Syn
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