[shr-u] update shr quite safely

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 07:18:07PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 07:49:19PM +0200, Davide Scaini wrote:
> >  I want to share my little bash script to update shr without distroying my
> > existing kernel (a true 2.6.28).
> > It's really stupid, but maybe someone could find it interesting.
> > 
> > opkg list_upgradable > upgradable
> > 
> > cat upgradable | awk '{print $1}' | grep -v kernel | grep -v Multiple |
> > while read line
> > 
> > do echo "installing pack $line"
> > opkg install $line
> > done
> > 
> > I have a script called upgrade.sh and I run that one. If you don't want to
> > update for example tangogps (or wathever) just add
> > grep -v tangogps |
> > just before "while read line"...
> 
> Nice. But a little heavy on the little Neos :) May I suggest a possible
> alternative?

oops a mistake, this one is corrected, though:

opkg list_upgradable | awk '!/(kernel|Multiple)/ {print $1}' | \
 	while read line; do
 		echo "installing pack $line"
 		opkg install $line
 	done

Rui