[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: [maemo-announce] New Nokia 770 software image available

[From: Álvaro J. Iradier]

Well, do you think it is that hard? I don't mind reinstalling from
scratch, but probably many users will think it twice before upgrading,
because they don't have time to spend on reinstalling everything :)

Dist-upgrading shouldn't be that hard. For a bug-fixing release like
this one, it would be even better to have the updated packages in a
repository when they are available, instead of all at once in a full
release. This way the need for extra space would be lower too. But I
guess most users have a big MMC card, so couldn't that be used for
downloading the packages before installing?

I'm not complaining, I really appreciate this work, you can just
consider this suggestions / feedback.

Thanks very much.

On 11/2/06, Michael Wiktowy <michael.wiktowy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/2/06, Álvaro J. Iradier <airadier at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is it posible to upgrade without flashing? Something like apt-get
> > dist-upgrading packages, flashing new kernel and initfs?
> >
> > Greets.
>
> I recall the Nokia devs stating in the past that they did not intend
> to support this route to upgrading. It is too bad but I would imagine
> that the problems involved are two-fold:
> 1) This route to upgrading is a lot more complicated to do right while
> avoiding the cruft buildup that is tolerable on a desktop system yet
> not so easily accommodated on a limited resource embedded system and
> 2) This route to upgrading typically necessitates having an equally
> large space to store the packages on top of the existing place where
> the old ones are installed. It seems wasteful to keep around a bunch
> of empty storage space for upgrading purposes that could be used for
> user data/apps. Once again,  it is tolerable on a desktop system yet
> not so easily accommodated on a limited resource embedded system.
>
> Neither of these things are technically insurmountable but it is a
> question of whether you want them to spend time and effort trying to
> get this to work and answering the inevitable questions from
> situations where it doesn't work or taking the simple brute-force way
> to upgrading and spending more effort on the actual content of the
> upgrades.
>
> /Mike
>
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