On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Tom Hacohen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey, > > Opimd got rewritten according to the guidlines in this page: > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Opimd_redesign . New opimd is faster, > "smarter" and easier to handle, so we want to more it as soon as possible, > for both your sake and ours. I have been using it for > a couple of weeks now (I'm not the only one) and it works great and bug > free so there really is no reason why not to move. > > The only "problem" is that new opimd has a different db design than the old > one, and therefore, you need to convert your database to the new format. > The database conversion takes a lot of time, so we have to think carefully > when we want to do it. There are 3 main possibilities: > > 1. Opkg postinst (will do it automatically when you upgrade opimd) - > Means a simple upgrade may take hours. > 2. First run after the installation - (Again, takes a lot of time, but > ok) > 3. When ever you want to, just add a nice message in opkg. - The script > converts databases, it doesn't import so you will loose all changes done > between installation and the convert. > > I prefer the second, because it's cleaner than the others. > > Very important note: new opimd does not support backends at all, if you > want anything that's not it's internal db, just import using pisi, this is > the price you have to pay for a working, solid and fast opimd. > > Cherrs, > -- > Tom. > > _______________________________________________ > Shr-User mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user > > Great! If you need my vote +1 for the second :) d
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