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Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

Quote:

Originally Posted by TomJ (Post 1430287)

3. Copy all of image file to directory (cp -R /mnt/ED /media/mmc1/.ED)

You might consider using tar to copy the ED files, as described on this page, in order to "preserve ownership, permissions, and timestamps".

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

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Originally Posted by zerox (Post 1430429)

You might consider using tar to copy the ED files, as described on this page, in order to "preserve ownership, permissions, and timestamps".

cp -a will do that for you too.

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

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Originally Posted by pichlo (Post 1430445)

cp -a will do that for you too.

I'm getting a load of

Code:

cp:Cannot preserve owership of foo: Operation not permitted

messages. I hope this won't be a problem.

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

OK, got around the ownership preservation thing but...

I have documented what I'm trying to do at http://wiki.maemo.org/User_talk:Tomj#Prepare_backup,

<plea for help deleted as I have realised how I was being a numpty a bottle of beer and half a bottle of wine at dinner, followed by a shot of tequilla and some 40 year old single malt have evidently helped me reach the Ballmer peak>

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

Quick check of understanding: editing /sbin/qchroot as so:

Code:

  echo .... >/dev/stderr

  #mount -o bind /home/user "$CHROOT/home/user"

 

  # Do it the Fremantle way.

  #mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 "$CHROOT/home"

  mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 "$CHROOT/home/user/MyDocs"

should be sufficient for Easy Debian to be able to access MyDocs, but not the rest of maemo's /home, shouldn't it?

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

Quote:

Originally Posted by sulu (Post 1430090)

Basically yes, although my version is even simpler (and therefore probably less elegant):

Code:

pp900-a:/sbin# diff closechroot closechroot.old

--- closechroot

+++ closechroot.old

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@

 fi

 

 #Abort if chroot not mounted.

-if [ "$IMGFILE" != "none" ] && [ ! -f "$CHROOT/var/lock/qmount-complete" ] ; then

+if [ ! -f "$CHROOT/var/lock/qmount-complete" ] ; then

   echo "Nothing to do; chroot not mounted!"

-   exit 1

+   #exit 1

 fi

I don't remember the details but when I had some problems with lingering mounts I decided to use steamroller tactics.
All you have to do is make sure everything that was mounted gets unmounted afterwards.

Thanks. So it might be good idea to include it into the easy-deb-chroot package :) Do you want to do it yourself as at the moment you're the actual Easy Debian maintainer? :)

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

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Originally Posted by Estel (Post 1422594)

(...) Of course, if people consider my usability modifications useful (sic!), I could release a tar that, upon extraction, should bring them into Wheezy version, too. No more wheezy images, though as - despite my ever-lasting admiration of sulu for his wonderful work on bringing so nearly complete wheezy experience - I stopped using wheezy alltogether, as the 3 confirmed things that won't work there (chromium, parts of gimp, and [g]parted) are, incidentally, the three things that I use in ED the most :(

Thanks for your willingness to host images, qole - such stability means a lot in troubles times of dissapearing hosts. I hope you can expect an squeeze-estel-final from me in few days ;)

/Estel

Hi Estel!!

I'm waiting your image with impatience. Browsing (and music too) is what I do with ED.

By the way, how to delete setting files when, for example, I switch images?

I noticed that when I change the images, the settings in ED from previous image was still here (panel for example). It could be useful because i'm obliged to install/uninstall ED each time I switch to a new image (in order to have a clean install)

Thanks in advance.

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

sulu: Your fix is partially in extras-devel ( without the commented out #exit 1)

I noticed a problem, though, that /var/lock/qmount-complete isn't created. Therefore, closechroot thinks there've been no mounts

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

Sorry for the late reply!

Quote:

Originally Posted by marmistrz (Post 1432463)

sulu: Your fix is partially in extras-devel ( without the commented out #exit 1)

I'm not quite sure I understand. Commnting out exit 1 is my "fix".

Quote:

Originally Posted by marmistrz (Post 1432463)

I noticed a problem, though, that /var/lock/qmount-complete isn't created. Therefore, closechroot thinks there've been no mounts

That's why exit 1 is commented out and why I said my solution would be less elegant - you could also call it dirty.

btw:
I have no ambitions of becoming a true ED maintainer. I only have very rudimentary knowledge of the packages and no intentions to change that.
Please feel free to apply any changes you like!

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing

link me to the latest estel image or alike . did he release it or i am missing something:)