Upgrading on Qtopia

[Matthew Lane]

Lorn Potter wrote:
> Matthew Lane wrote:
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>> Hey all,
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>> I've read that opkg can't upgrade qtopia, but it should be able to 
>> upgrade my kernel, correct?
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> Thats correct, Qtopia's 4.3 build system does not make a complete ipkg 
> for easy upgrade. This will change in 4.4
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>> Well, when I do opkg update, opkg upgrade my phone will spend about 
>> 20-30 minutes updating everything (from the latest qtopia image on 
>> trolltech's website) and I need a lot of those packages (such as 
>> libc++6) for running other scripts on qtopia.  Anyways, after upgrading, 
>> I restart my phone and it freezes on the blank black screen with a 
>> cursor in the upper left corner.  The phone won't ever boot!  So I have 
>> to reflash the lastest image I just tried to upgrade.  I've attempted 
>> this twice, and I can't upgrade my phone!
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> There is a new image at qtopia.net. This new one _should_ be able to 
> upgrade the system.
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> As well, there is a qtopia binary only tarball which has a script to 
> update just qtopia in case you don't want to backup your settings.
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Awesome, thanks for the response.