Repository and Images

[shawnzier at gmail.com]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 07:13:58AM -0400, Geoff Ruscoe wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Julian Chu <julian_chu at openmoko.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Community,
> >
> >
> >   *) A new 2008.8 stable image
> >
> >      [2]http://downloads.openmoko.org/releases/Om2008.8-update/
> >
> >      Oh, it's daily build.
> >
> >   *) The repository of 2008.8
> >      After the building process complete, we also sync the repository[3]
> >      People can upgrade from there.
> >
> >      [3] http://downloads.openmoko.org/repository/Om2008.8/
> >
> >   *) Base Images and repository
> >      [5] http://downloads.openmoko.org/repository/testing/
> >
> 
> Okay I think these details above sound great, but when I tried them out they
> did not go as expected.  Maybe we can get some clarification on the correct
> path for a user (like me :-)).
> 
> Anyway,
> Starting point 2008.08 w/ Zeche's testing repos -- everything up to date.
> Get this mail installed the testing image
>     created:
>         testing-all-feed.conf
>         testing-armv4t-feed.conf
>         testing-om-gta02-feed.conf
>     all pointing to the testing repository listed above (5)
> 
> did the opkg update opkg upgrade
> This did lots of stuff ... I was getting excited about the new code

It also should have asked you if you want to update certain config
files. For some reason, with these repositories, they try to overwrite
your /etc/opk/*.conf files. It does ask you though, and you can see a
diff of the files by pressing D when it asks.