I believe it only applies to a "factory-fresh phone" because the newer images already have dropbear upgraded. Since dropbear doesn't need upgraded, the ssh connection doesn't drop and everything upgrades fine.
The factory image has this little chicken/egg problem where you can't do a global "opkg upgrade" from the terminal on the Neo because it restarts X (which kills the upgrade process) and you can't "opkg upgrade" over ssh because dropbear gets upgraded and closes your ssh connection (which kills the upgrade process). -Steven On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 3:59 AM, Jette Derriche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody > > I got the Freerunner a week ago, and I have done the initial > update/upgrade successfully. But I have one question to the information > on the wiki: > > "Note that running opkg upgrade on a factory-fresh phone will upgrade > dropbear (the ssh software) and various xserver packages, and neither > upgrades elegantly while in use, so either upgrade dropbear from the > FreeRunner's terminal and then upgrade the rest via ssh, or upgrade the > xserver packages via ssh and then upgrade the rest from the FreeRunner's > terminal" > > Why does this only apply to a factory-fresh phone? I imagine that there > could be a reason for updating these packages in the future also? > > /Jette > > > _______________________________________________ > support mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support > _______________________________________________ support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support
