On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 22 Jul 2008, at 09:59, Jette Derriche wrote: > > > > "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? > > You're right. It doesn't apply only to a factory-fresh phone, it > applies any time dropbear is updated. Hopefully users will recognise > this, because it was explained to them in this Quickstart guide. If > not we'll need to add an FAQ to the wiki or make the Quickstart > explain this better. > > Stroller. > > > _______________________________________________ > support mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support >
Another methodthat works too is to just update dropbear from the terminal on the phone (opkg update && opkg install dropbear) then do an "opkg upgrade" from an ssh session :)
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