/qtopia/ how to upgrade without reflashing?

Lorn Potter lpotter at trolltech.com
Sat Aug 2 00:49:14 CEST 2008


Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> Is there an easy way to upgrade qtopia installation without reflashing
> whole rootfs? since /opt/Qtopia is not a part of any package according
> to opkg search, thus is not 'opkg upgrade'able. 1 possibility I see is
> to keep /home/root on a flash and manually mount it to preserve at least
> personal settings and  aphone book, but that would require manual
> remounting after flashing. May be there is a better way??
> 

The next update of Qtopia from qtopia.net I will also make an 'update 
tarball' with a script to easily install it.

make packages in 4.3 doesn't work completely, so thats why there is no feed.

4.4 will be a different story.






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Lorn 'ljp' Potter
Software Engineer, Systems Group, Trolltech, a Nokia company




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