On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Cédric Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 09:26, Nishit Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Cédric Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > wrote: > >> Is this image now based on 2008.8 (base testing) ? > >> I can see that opkg config files now target 2008.x testing repository. > >> Should it be safe to opkg upgrade ? > >> > >> And could we know what modifications were made (or not) to "standard" > >> OM rootfs ? > >> > > The opkg files have always targeted OM repositories. IMHO it would be > very > > dangerous to try anything from there, because of X. > > > > Well previous qtopia images targeted OM repos, but buildhost ones > (2007.2). (it was indicated somewhere that first rootfs were made > starting from a FSO one). > Since opkg config has been modified to target > download.openmoko.org/repository/testing/ , I thought that might > indicate rootfs was at least aligned with OM one... > So far they have been saying it is based on the FSO stack... > > Anyway, it would be good to know what rootfs is really made of. > And we should be able to install qtextended on a OM rootfs (in fact I > did on one partition of my phone). > If you are really interested, they have also released the source package and toolchain. > > X should not interfere here, at least as far as OM qtopia X packages > are not installed. And I think they are not in OM base testing image, > and of course neither in Trolltech's image. So opkg upgrade should not > be dangerous. > On my partition were I started from a 2008.8 base testing image + > qtextended (and, before, qtopia 4.3.2), I kept doing opkg > update/upgrade with not much trouble. > > Did you install anything from there? How effective was upgrade? I did try checking if opkg update worked, but as the internet connection was faulty at that time, I couldn't get any results.
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