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[Vojtech Bocek <vbocek@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, adding support for sideload might be a good idea. It's just alias for
adb push file.zip /sdcard/sideload.zip though, that's all, so it won't be
faster or anything just a tiny bit more user friendly.

You should be able to update these testing images quite safely if you set
FLASH_KERNEL_SKIP=1. The initrd and kernel won't be updated, but it doesn't
change very often. Also, if any of the packages MultiROM modified gets
updated, you can re-patch them in recovery, via Advanced -> MutliROM ->
List ROMs -> *rom* -> Re-patch init.

    export FLASH_KERNEL_SKIP=1
    apt-get update
    apt-get dist-upgrade

Remember these are very early testing images, they'll soon get replaced by
proper images on system-image.ubuntu.com. Once that happens, updating it'll
be much better, since MultiROM can handle OTA updates via system-image
correctly (whereas it is not feasible to do so for updates via apt-get).


2014-02-05 Davide Depau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On 02/04/2014 01:25 PM, Vojtech Bocek wrote:
>
>> MultiROM indeed supports these testing images. Make sure you have the
>> latest MultiROM and recovery (I've just released new one) and follow
>> instructions in the XDA thread[1], under "Adding ROMs" -> "3. Ubuntu
>> Touch".
>>
>> [1]: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2457063
>>
>> PS: Sorry to Davide, who will receive this message twice since I'm not
>> used to mailing lists -.-
>>
>
> Oh, thanks, that seems good, I just flashed the recovery and MultiROM, I'm
> downloading the rootfs.
>
> I'd just add the possibility to flash both the files using sideload (you
> can make it sequential instead of "choose both the files to install": like
> "where do you want to get the small one: [Choose zip] [Sideload], then, if
> the user uses sideload, rename the first one to something else, ask the
> same question for the big one and then, once you have both of them, flash
> them, asking confirmation of course).
>
> I'd also say in the main post, in the "updating roms" section that, as
> this is ubuntu and not android, you can update the rootfs by using apt, and
> that the only thing that needs to be updated with multirom is the kernel
> and system.
>