Autorun for SD card mechanism?

[Pander]

good idea. I already have all those files on SD but after each upgrade
have to install them manually, which is annoying.

I would suggest something like:

1) notify user to do an opkg update and opkg upgrade first

2) change to post installation directory
cd /media/card/post

3) change to package directory and install all that is in there
cd packages
opkg install *.ipk *.opk
cd ..

4) override files
cd override
[[copy all files to root of system, e.g. override/etc/blabla to
/etc/blabla]]
cd ..

5) path files
cd patches
[[apply all patchers to root of system]]
cd ..

off course documenting your changes via patches/diffs is preferred over
overriding, allowing improvements in other parts of the files via opkg
upgrade before you start.

Johny Tenfinger wrote:
> Shortly: Let's write it ;)
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> 2009/4/8, Lothar Behrens <lothar.behrens at lollisoft.de>:
>> There is an idea rattling in my head about the following issue:
>>
>> Given I have a micro SD card and that would have all here, what is
>> about a bootstrap mechanism to
>> post install packages that are laying on that card to be installed,
>> when a new image is started at first time?
>>
>> Like the autorun of a CD, this would help to ease the distro switch
>> but keep my usual applications that otherwise
>> have to be installed manually.
>>
>> This would include SSH settings, WLAN settings, look and feel, and
>> what ever may possible.
>>
>> What about it?
>>
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