Hi JoW, On Wednesday 17 June 2009 16:14:37 Jo-Philipp Wich wrote: > I like that .tar.gz idea, it would also cover devices like the Fonera > where you have two separate images too. > > However, it's planned to introduce a unified image format for OpenWrt > which would solve most of this issues so I haven't started working on it.
Is this planned for some time or do you mean Daniel's proposal (which sounds like a new idea but I'm not subscribed to this list very long). There's no reason why the unified format couldn't be a tgz (or some other, maybe uncompressed, format which carries a magic number) with some meta informations :) Daniel's proposal sounded quite complicated to me. > But imho it would be great to have such a capability for the stable 8.09 > series since it can be added as package on top of the normal code. > > The question is whether config-keeping is doable in such a way, have you > already tried this (with mtd's -j option) ? No, I haven't. The RB411 is just a testbed for my hacks so I don't care about recreating the config (and switched to 8.09 with backported packages anyway). Also, the wget2nand script from the ar71xx platform (which I used for reflashing) uses the default yffs formatted partition, so I don't think the mtd -j switch would work anyway (haven't tried it though). But if the rootfs is a jffs, I don't see while config-keeping shouldn't work (ok, so the tarball would need a symlink or something pointing to the rootfs). Cheers, Malte -- _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
