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

[Sander van Grieken]

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

Solutions above in increasing level of convenience :)