On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:56 PM, sam tygier <[email protected]> wrote:

> Tom Hacohen wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> Opimd got rewritten according to the guidlines in this page:
>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Opimd_redesign . New opimd is faster,
>> "smarter" and easier to handle, so we want to more it as soon as possible,
>> for both your sake and ours. I have been using it for
>> a couple of weeks now (I'm not the only one) and it works great and bug
>> free so there really is no reason why not to move.
>>
>> The only "problem" is that new opimd has a different db design than the
>> old one, and therefore, you need to convert your database to the new format.
>> The database conversion takes a lot of time, so we have to think carefully
>> when we want to do it. There are 3 main possibilities:
>>
>>   1. Opkg postinst (will do it automatically when you upgrade opimd) -
>>
>>      Means a simple upgrade may take hours.
>>   2. First run after the installation - (Again, takes a lot of time,
>>      but ok)
>>   3. When ever you want to, just add a nice message in opkg. - The
>>
>>      script converts databases, it doesn't import so you will loose all
>>      changes done between installation and the convert.
>>
>> I prefer the second, because it's cleaner than the others.
>>
>> Very important note: new opimd does not support backends at all, if you
>> want anything that's not it's internal db, just import using pisi, this is
>> the price you have to pay for a working, solid and fast opimd.
>>
>> Cherrs,
>> --
>> Tom.
>>
>>
>
> can the conversion process handle interruption. not necessarily to pick up
> where it left off, but to try again. that way it could be triggered in the
> post install, but if the user turns the phone off it will be triggered again
> at first run.
>
> sam
> _______________________________________________
>
It can handle interruption, you can just stop it whenever you want (though
you'll have to start from scratch if you stop it).
So maybe a good idea would be doing both 1 and 2 (and of course if already
converted it won't start again).

-- 
Tom.
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