The MD5 sum seems like a good approach. For anyone reading this, I found this link useful:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/318530/generate-md5-checksum-for-all-files-in-a-directory find -exec md5sum "{}" \; > checklist.chk md5sum -c checklist.chk # runs through the list to check them On Saturday, September 6, 2014 6:33:33 PM UTC-4, William Hermans wrote: > > Define "something gets messed up". You're going to have to know what this > something *is* before solving the issue. But perhaps you could use an MD5 > sum to verify the file ? Then when there is a mismatch you delete the > target file and try again ? > > > On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Brent <bren...@hotmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> I have a Qt application that runs at start up. Currently, I update my >> application by allowing the user to press a button inside of my application >> which copies the updated application files from the USB drive to the eMMC. >> It then sets a flag inside of a text file to "1", and reboots. When my >> start up script is ran, it firsts checks the text file to see if there is a >> "1", and if so it overwrites the old files with the new ones and then >> launches the application. This works most of the time, but there are >> occasions where something gets messed up and the new application does not >> start. >> >> I was wondering if there is a better way of updating my application. >> Could I use opkg to do this, and if so, how? Will it allow my application >> to be running while it is updating it? What is the proper way to do this? >> Thanks in advance for your help! >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to beagleboard...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
