[oe] [PATCH] zaurus-updater: add support for home partition reflashing

[Stanislav Brabec]

Dne Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:48:48 +0300
Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov at gmail.com> napsal(a):

> Sometimes one needs to clean/reflash the home partition.
> Add support for flashing home.bin/HOME.BIN files onto "home" mtd
> device.

Somebody may found it useful (e. g. for initial setup).

Note that on models with HDD it will not do what is expected.
It will format 2nd NAND partition, but /home is on /dev/hda2.

When you are discussing updater, I would like to discuss few additional
changes:

1. Decrease number of reserved sectors while formatting the HDD. 5% is
far too much of space unusable for packages installation. I have 5%
free, but unable to run applications using /tmp. I propose 0% (or only
a few blocks).

2. Support for langpacks. OE does not create langpack yet, but it would
be nice to be able to flash localized system.

3. I am using post-flash customization using a combination of additional
files and patches. It would be nice to have something like that
directly as an updater feature.

-- 
Stanislav Brabec
http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/zaurus