Re: [iPAQ] ipkg FUBARed my iPAQ :-(

hi,

sorry you're so frustrated.

that said, please write out all of the important details of this into
bugzilla, including the failure example.

curious, ipkg "told" you that it was removing .o files?

we know about the weird version oddities, we're looking into it.

the bootldr copy command is very new, so documentation...

carry on,

steve

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Tels wrote:

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> Moin,
>
> wanted to install konqueror with ipkg (can't look at ipkg version anymore,
> but was pretty new) since I needed it for some presentation.
>
> Unfortunately, konqueror needs libjpg - so I installed that to. Well, tried.
>
> My iPAQ didn't have a proper internet connection, so I scp'ed the two ipk
> files manually and tried to install them.
>
> ipkg always complained about the need to download libc (which is apparently
> needed for libjpg - but I already had libc installed!) and failed with "no
> route to host". After a few fruitless tries with -force-depends I just gave
> in (seems that -force-depends just doesn't work anymore - it tries to
> download the dependecies anyway).
>
> So I configured the connection. Which was bad. I thought it wouldn't harm,
> since libc was already installed!
>
> ipkg then procedded to download libc and then promptly told me it would
> upgrade libc from 2.2.5-6 to 2.2.3 :-(
>
> It also told me it removed a lot of *.o files - and since this was clearly
> all wrong, I aborted it and was left immidiately with an unusable ipkg. It
> did not even find pwd, ls, ipkg or chdir anymore - doesn't boot, kernel
> panic. Grrr.... :-(
>
> Now where is the backup when you need one? (After a few frustrating hours I
> know now how to make a backup of the flash to an CF card - seems that the
> copy command of bootldr is nowhere mentioned except at one page, which
> gets its parameters totally wrong, you need a (newer) bootldr, a VFAT
> partition (no, fat 16 is not okay), AND the file you want to write to has
> to exist (?). And I didn't even check whether the backup worked or how I can
> access the jffs file or to repair my / system...but thats another story...)
>
> Seems to be me that ipkg should:
>
> * not download packages if I specify -force-depends
> * not "upgrade" to older versions
> * have some sort of "ask me whether to upgrade or not" mode
> * ask me when upgrading critical packages in any case
> * do the upgrade in some sort of safe way, not just blindly deleting system
> libraries and then hope it is able to replace them afterwards
>
> Thanx for listening,
>
> Te"Frustration is now my middle name"ls
>
>
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Received on Wed Jul 10 11:53:43 2002