opkg update/upgrade


relliker

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Hi all,


I happened to do an opkg update and upgrade on my SD-installed Zaxxon HF6 alpha 4 and it seems to have messed up my install (especially the keyboard config).


Anyone else encountered this? I'm wondering why the Angstrom official repo should touch Pandora-specific configurations.
 
I've always heard that sudo opkg upgrade screws up your OS, but how, exactly?
 
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Without being entirely sure, I assume this:


The workings of the Pandora depend on a specific set of libraries, kernel, kernel modules (drivers in WinSpeak) and so on. Some of these are custom to the Pandora. Some of these depend on specific versions of other things.


An opkg upgrade upgrades every package that opkg recognizes to the latest and greatest version. This is good and well, if you run a normal (non-custom) Ångström install, since then the package maintainers will attempt to keep the whole thing in sync. However, to upgrade the pandora versions of the packages to the latest and greatest means that those specific, customized, pandora-packages suddenly finds their chosen libraries and stuff to have changed under their feet, so to speak, and promptly stops working. In an ideal future, OPsoft will have employed a round-the-clock team of hardcore specialist who keep a pandora-specific repository up-to-date for the pandora, and millions of pandoras all over the world will run opkg upgrade daily against this repository. This is, however, still two months off.


An opkg update, however, should not break anything. That ought only to update the pandoras' internal list of available packages, which ought not to change anything at all, really.
 
Well, for one, I cannot log in anymore the normal way. Keyboard is very erratic after the upgrade. When a key is pressed, if it appears on the screen then it's ok, otherwise, if a key is pressed and it doesn't show the corresponding character I have to press space to get it to show so my login name sometimes goes from "kevin" to "k ev i n" to work. Inputting the password is a nightmare since I have to keep counting the *'s to know if the pressed key has worked or not.


The nubs' response (right nub as mouse buttons) has become very erratic, left click doesn't work, double-click (up) works, right click (nub move right) works erratically.


D-pad has to be pressed twice in the same direction to move to the next item.


Icons missing, or changing location after reboots.


Pressing <enter> on a menu item does not launch it.


Screen sensitivity to stylus became erratic, sometimes sticking and drawing boxes wherever I click next and/or executing programs multiple times with only a single stylus touch.


Corrupted graphics.


Some PNDs won't launch any more. (says something about Union FS not being mounted)


My bluetooth LED goes on as soon as I log in and won't go off even if bluetooth is off.


My opinion now: DON'T EVER `opkg update/upgrade`, unless you have an SD backup and want to see what goes awry on a spare SD just for fun :)
 
As I said: I believe opkg update should be perfectly safe. But you should indeed never do opkg upgrade.
 
As I said: I believe opkg update should be perfectly safe. But you should indeed never do opkg upgrade.

yep, that I knew, but I did an 'update' because I wanted to do an 'upgrade'. Now I know better ;)
 
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