Tom Hacohen wrote:
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:56 PM, sam tygier
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Tom Hacohen 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.
can the conversion process handle interruption. not necessarily to
pick up where it left off, but to try again. that way it could be
triggered in the post install, but if the user turns the phone off
it will be triggered again at first run.
sam
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It can handle interruption, you can just stop it whenever you want
(though you'll have to start from scratch if you stop it).
So maybe a good idea would be doing both 1 and 2 (and of course if
already converted it won't start again).
--
Tom.
maybe there could be a message along the lines of
"Database is being updated to new format. This can take some time. You can stop the
update by pressing Ctrl+C. It will be automatically restarted next time you run
Opimd"
Also is it possible to show a progress bar?
Sam
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