ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,
Am Freitag, den 17.04.2015, 13:00 +0200 schrieb Matthias Apitz:
> El da Friday, April 17, 2015 a las 11:47:01AM +0100, Chris Croome escribi:
> 
> > On Fri 17-Apr-2015 at 10:40:12AM +0200, Michał Sawicz wrote:
> > > 
> > > That said, you're free to make your device's rootfs writable and use
> > > apt/dpkg to install regular .deb packages. It's not a supported way of
> > > working, your mileage may vary and you might lose the installed items
> > > during an OTA.
> > 
> > This is what I do, I've scripted all the things that need to be done
> > after a upgrade so it is is quick to reinstall everything, mutt,
> > fetchmail and maildrop etc all work fine.
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Do you have some small how-to for this, including making the rootfs
> writable and install packages. Even if it is very raw, I'd like to
> include this into my small collection of information (growing here
> http://www.unixarea.de/bq.txt ) and of course, I'd install mutt too.
> 
for single dependency-less binaries you can do something like:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/10837934/

the OTA wont touch /usr/local so your binaries will stay around
untouched ... the terminal wouldn't allow you execution from ~/bin by
policy so you need to put the binaries somewhere in the system PATH ...

ciao
	oli