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	noobmonkey	2010-01-11 , 12:52
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Originally Posted by benny1967

I'm not sure if I'm stating the obvious here, but from the context and the way you ask it there could be a misunderstanding about the term "rootfs".

It means "root file system" - if you're used to Windows, from a user perspective it's a bit like drive C: (OK, everyone else, I know this is plain wrong from a technical point of view, but it gets the point across, doesn't it ...)

So it's not something you want to delete (you don't delete C: ...), it's something you want to delete things from to make space available again.

To make space available, uninstall applications you got from extras-devel and extras-testing. Many of those are in early stages of development and use much more space on the root file system than they should.

Good explanation Benny

- but you will now have to walk him through doing that!

- there needs to be a pre-installed - 'save me' button for people who have used extras dev and extras testing.... because its obvious people are going to use them, if they are available, if if there are a million warnings....

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	benny1967	2010-01-11 , 12:52
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Originally Posted by Osilayer

was it like before the update???? could see windoze media player shares over the network???

I could see my shared media before this upgrade, yes. - Could be that there was a bug that prevented it from showing up in your setup, so this new firmware brings new feature to you.

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	Jaffa	2010-01-11 , 12:53
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Originally Posted by Venomrush

We could get red pill back if someone flash back to 42-11, make a copy of packages changed in 44-1

Diff them and should be able to see the code for red pill to reinsert

Or, y'know, you could just go to maemo.gitorious.org, find an earlier version of HAM and build that - or revert the commit which removed it.

Red pill's not some super secret sauce which is attempted to be hidden in the source code; HAM is quite readable source and builds nicely in Scratchbox.

No need to go ferreting around inside firmware images!

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	noobmonkey	2010-01-11 , 12:54
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Originally Posted by phuongymy

ok, i have updated and it feels to me that the sliding to unlock is much much faster. it does not get choppy as it use to. thats the only thing i actually noticed in 10 minutes of update.

Ooo you are right, the slider does feel alot lighter now!

Just realised it has changed my theme from the orange one to the blue one

- oh well, not an issue for me!

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	dmcconachie	2010-01-11 , 12:54
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Originally Posted by Osilayer

was it like before the update???? could see windoze media player shares over the network???

Yes it was.

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	Fargus	2010-01-11 , 12:55
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Originally Posted by Venomrush

I haven't use previous versions of Maemo before. You mean the update will restore the latest backup?

Uupdates should check the package listing after a successful restart to ense that application repositorys are called if required.

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	benny1967	2010-01-11 , 12:56
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Originally Posted by noobmonkey

- there needs to be a pre-installed - 'save me' button for people who have used extras dev and extras testing.... because its obvious people are going to use them, if they are available, if if there are a million warnings....

I'm not familiar with apt-thingies... I'm one of those who'll miss red pill mode. (I thought the interface was cool, entering "matrix and all that...)

So: Is it possible to select applications by repository from a script?

So there could be a script that selects everything from -devel and -testing, uninstalls it and disables the reps. Would maybe help in a few situations. Having such an app in Extras as "saveme" could be a good idea.

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	nintendogs	2010-01-11 , 13:00
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Originally Posted by noobmonkey

Just realised it has changed my theme from the orange one to the blue one

The orange theme is still available, it did that for me too, but I changed it back to the orange one (digital nature).

At least I'm not the only one

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tomchiverton	2010-01-11 , 13:02
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Originally Posted by benny1967

I'm not familiar with apt-thingies... I'm one of those who'll miss red pill mode. (I thought the interface was cool, entering "matrix and all that...)

So: Is it possible to select applications by repository from a script?

So there could be a script that selects everything from -devel and -testing, uninstalls it and disables the reps. Would maybe help in a few situations. Having such an app in Extras as "saveme" could be a good idea.

Yes. ....................................

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Missingbyte	2010-01-11 , 13:02
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Sorry if this seems a daft question, but had to remove apps to free space to fit the 20mb update. So if this is just a tiny update whats gonna happen when the big one comes along ?

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