[shr-t] Big update, safe or not ?

[Risto H. Kurppa]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Sander van Grieken <sander at 3v8.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 18 March 2010 17:17:21 Martin Jansa wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 05:14:08PM +0100, Sander van Grieken wrote:
>> > On Thursday 18 March 2010 15:34:42 neo at el-hennig.de wrote:
>> > >  > But today I've tried an 'opkg update' and now I see :
>> > > > $opkg list-upgradable | wc -l
>> > > > 682
>> > > >
>> > > > Will such a big upgrade be ok or do I have to wait until Sunday (more
>> > > > time to fix borken things) ?
>> > >
>> > > You should consider to upgrade in more than one step, as space in /tmp
>> > > is limited.
>> >
>> > Or simply create a tempdir on the SD card and upgrade using
>> > opkg -t /media/card/tmp upgrade
>>
>> or permanentrly update tmp_dir option in /etc/opkg/opkg.conf for better
>> location if default /var/lib/opkg/tmp doesn't suit you

But before doing any of this, you might want to know that there's a
high propability that all your contacts & SMS's are gone, and will not
be read from SIM. Someone might be able to point you to some magic to
prevent this from happening.

r

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