Hi everyone, Love the response!
First, I think we should stay here [the mail list ] for the moment. Easier to find if others will google anything regarding this in the future, and won't force a G+ account. Also, thank you for all the pointers and info - I will take a closer look. I will set up a project for this at launchpad and give you all a link to start the actual development and discussion. After that I will paint a picture of an idea how to do this, and until then any ones ideas are welcome :) Cheers, Daniel Den 15 aug 2014 10:47 skrev "Michael Zanetti" <michael.zane...@canonical.com >: > On Friday 15 August 2014 09:52:44 Oliver Grawert wrote: > > hi, > > > > Am Freitag, den 15.08.2014, 09:34 +0200 schrieb Michael Zanetti: > > > Cool stuff.. I'm a bit worried that you're just lucky though. Not > really > > > sure if its a good idea to install something manually and switch back > to > > > OTA upgrades. But I'm no expert on OTA stuff. Maybe someone else can > shed > > > some light how to do such a thing more reliable. > > > > there are surely 100 non-obvious things that will break :) > > > > the obvious one is that after the first OTA your apt and dpkg databases > > are replaced with the ones from the image. so everything you installed > > is gone from them and the system will not know about them anymore. > > most likely your binaries will still be there (not much different from > > what you get by compiling stuff from source and running a "make > > install".) > > Ok. I don't see that much of an issue as such installed stuff won't be > upgraded by apt or OTA anyways. So not real need to keep it in the apt > database I guess. > > > > > if your package registers with the system anywhere (i.e. a new gstreamer > > plugin that registers with the system gstreamer database) this will be > > overwritten as well ... > > This is obviously more critical, however in this particular case not > problematic either. > > > > > if you don't install any complex things with only libs and binaries > > manual install and switching back to OTA will work. as soon as your > > packages interact with the system at installl time to register to some > > system configuration, this configuration will be removed by OTA > > upgrades. > > Hmm ok... So it seems that in cases where you really just install a binary > (e.g. copying it to /usr/bin/) this is actually a viable option and won't > break on OTA updates? That's great to know. I was always worried that any > modification in rw mode would very likely cause future OTA upgrades to fail > and leave you with a broken system. > > Thanks for the explanations Oli! > > Cheers, > Michael > > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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