Re: small upgrade problem

From: Matthew Hixson <hixson.a.t.poindextrose.org>
Date: Sun Feb 24 2002 - 15:07:26 EST

Hey Thomas,
  Run this script and it will solve your problems.

----
#!/bin/sh
ipkg update;
for i in `ipkg status|grep opie|cut -d" " -f2`;
  do 
  ipkg remove $i;
  ipkg install $i;
done;
----
 -M@
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Thomas Bouve wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> first of all I love opie.  I've switched over from qpe over a week or so
> ago.  Anyway, i had the files installed dated februari 15 (installed them
> using a ipkg upgrade, worked fine).  I saw today that there were new files
> on the server (dated februari 22) so I decided to run ipkg upgrade again.
> Small problem, because of the naming convention used the files won't upgrade
> since ipkg thinks they are earlier versions.  All I can do is remove all of
> my opie installation and start again.  The files used to have the following
> version number:
> 
> 1.5.0-beta8.1
> 
> and now it's changed to:
> 
> 1.5.0-20020222
> 
> So the result is that ipkg thinks that the februari 22 files are older
> version than the februari 15 ones and refuses to upgrade the opie packages.
> Can this be solved in some way?  Thanks for the help and keep up all the
> good work... I really love my opie dragon on the background :) :)
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Thomas
> 
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Received on Sun Feb 24 12:06:50 2002

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