Installing powerd on earlier F11 builds

[Martin Langhoff]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
> as you've gathered, there are a lot of pieces that make all this
> work:  the UI, powerd, the kernel, the firmware.  if you could upgrade
> all of the last three, you might be fine, but of course then other
> interactions between your user-level and the kernel might get upset.

Sridhar - from a support PoV, you need to ensure powerd, kernel and
OFW are all aligned. This may be more cumbersome than an update.

If you can run scripts from usb as you've mentioned, you could

 - create a new build with olpc-os-builder
 - place the .toc and the .usb file in the USB stick
 - place a script that autoruns
    olpc-update -u

This will install only the new/changed files without affecting user data.

cheers,



m
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