Best way to update OpenOS?

[dgelessus 26]

The green OpenOS floppies appear to load OpenOS directly from the mod files, so they always have the latest version of OpenOS on them. But what is the best way to update an OpenOS installation on a hard disk, which of course won't receive the update automatically?

 

Running install from an OpenOS floppy isn't a great solution, because that will overwrite config files under /etc, and possibly other things, depending on how destructive the installer is. Is there a way to make install copy only certain files?

 

If there's no good way to do this yet I might write up my own script to do this.

[MaximilianVINCENT 8]

Better yet, take a look at the source code for /bin/install.lua. Modify it with an update parameter and relevent code to prevent the overwriting of config files. When working, put a pull request(?) on github for that file.

 

Good thinking, by the way.

[Sangar 92]

Hrm, looking at /etc, the only thing of real relevance would be rc.cfg, no? So renaming that to, say, rc.cfg.example would, for the most part, make it a non issue to just overwrite all files. But yeah, a proper way to ignore certain files during the install would be nicer. Since there are a couple of options already, adding one that takes a colon separated list of files (or directories, when ending with a slash) to exclude seems reasonable.

[dgelessus 26]

There's also /etc/filesystem.cfg or whatever it's called, the one where you can disable autorun. If install doesn't copy directories destructively (i. e. delete any files that aren't in the source folder) then the rest should be okay though.

[Sangar 92]

Yes, but that's not on the OpenOS disk, so it won't be overwritten. `install` only copies/overwrites, doesn't delete.

[dgelessus 26]

Huh, apparently rc is the only thing that has its config on the OpenOS disk, all other programs seem to generate their configs on first run. By the way, I wrote a modified version of install that accepts an --ignore option, and an update program to update OpenOS. I'll make a PR once I figure out how to git again.