KindleTool: Create/Unpack Kindle update files - Page 13

NiLuJe · 04-18-2016, 07:09 PM

@geekmaster:

Heh. Downside of using PWD as a tmpdir and using a wildcard or . as input from that same directory? You'll probably end up eating your own tail

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Does that (i.e., you getting an extra kindletool_create_tarball_XXXXXX file in your package) always happen, or was that one a fluke? (Or a remain of the previous broken builds, some of which did not delete every tmp file properly).

IIRC, libarchive doesn't care whether one uses / or \, so both should work, but I may be misremembering that, or there's another issue elsewhere...

Anyway, thanks for your reports & various tests, glad we got most of it worked out

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geekmaster · 04-18-2016, 08:00 PM

Those included tarballs were residue left in my install bin when a kindletool (old version) had a temp file failure with the "." tempdir kludge. If I forgot to delete them, the next build (even with a good kindletool) snarfed them up as part of the package (what happened with the first mediafire upload).

However, I just looked in my scrollback buffer, and the intermittent fail I just mentioned was preceded by a "dir" which showed ONLY install.sh in my install folder. The only thing I did to make it work on the next attempt was to delete the destination Update.bin files of the same name.

Regarding slashes, mingw kindletool fails with a backslash in the path argument.

Interestingly, at one job I worked at back in the day, we had the source code for MS-DOS 1.0 (which I read front to back), and it supported BOTH forward slashes and backslashes in file paths (at least in the source code, but I never tried it because we were adding DOS API support to a unix-ish system. For some reason Microsoft REMOVED forward slash path support in later versions (perhaps to discourage Unix fans?). Back in the day I had a shelf of AT&T unix books, and I wrote a kernel driver for our custom hardware. My main development system (early rare expensive laptop) had a small (first gen) LCD with medium greenish-grey background and slightly darker bluish-grey squashed (not pixel doubled) characters (not backlit, and highly dependent on bright lighting and viewing angle, some of which were unreadable altogether). My eyes hurt just remembering the late night coding binges sessions in those days... I cannot even remember how many device drivers (and bare-metal embedded firmware from total scratch, including cutting and jumpering mistakes I found on prototype hardware) I wrote in my lifetime. Typically most device drivers began life as diagnostics, and grew sideways from there... Probably why I still enjoy native programs and I am looking and writing kernel mode drivers (for "rootkit/hiding hacks from amazon" support?)...

NiLuJe · 04-18-2016, 09:04 PM

I'll probably add the tmpfile templates to the archive exclude list as a workaround, that should take care of that.

I'll see if I can figure out what happens with backslashes, but don't hold your breath on that one

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NiLuJe · 04-19-2016, 02:33 PM

There, 1.6.4.69 *should* automatically exclude its own tempfile

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(Which in turn prevents it from trying to sign it, because the standard libarchive check (which is what's tripped in @GM's example) doesn't account for that

).

NiLuJe · 05-29-2018, 07:31 PM

Finally tagged v1.6.5

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Should support everything up to the KOA2.

Discontinued the Cygwin binaries, because they're a PITA to build (I'd have to reboot, and, well, reinstall Cygwin). Should you *really* need to use it under Cygwin, it's fairly easy to build.

(NB: Yes, that means updated snapshots will come, Soon(TM)).

EDIT: Snapshots are here! Yay! *throws confetti*

heyman · 07-08-2019, 10:07 AM

what does "PSA" mean???????????

ilovejedd · 07-08-2019, 10:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by heyman

what does "PSA" mean???????????

Public Service Announcement

NiLuJe · 07-08-2019, 01:49 PM

Strange, I was convinced it stood for "Don't Feed The Troll"...

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Deobulakenyo · 12-21-2021, 09:15 PM

hi. i am trying to extract wallpapers from a kindle update file (5.14.1) and when i run the kindletool, it opens a cmd window so fast, i do not know how to use this.

Can anyone help me guide me to do this?

Thanks

DNSB · 12-21-2021, 09:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deobulakenyo

hi. i am trying to extract wallpapers from a kindle update file (5.14.1) and when i run the kindletool, it opens a cmd window so fast, i do not know how to use this.

Can anyone help me guide me to do this?

Thanks

See my reply in the thread in which you originally asked about the process.

04-18-2016, 07:09 PM	#181
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,477 Karma: 26012494 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	@geekmaster: Heh. Downside of using PWD as a tmpdir and using a wildcard or . as input from that same directory? You'll probably end up eating your own tail . Does that (i.e., you getting an extra kindletool_create_tarball_XXXXXX file in your package) always happen, or was that one a fluke? (Or a remain of the previous broken builds, some of which did not delete every tmp file properly). IIRC, libarchive doesn't care whether one uses / or \, so both should work, but I may be misremembering that, or there's another issue elsewhere... Anyway, thanks for your reports & various tests, glad we got most of it worked out . Last edited by NiLuJe; 04-18-2016 at 07:16 PM.

04-18-2016, 08:00 PM	#182
geekmaster Carpe diem, c'est la vie. Posts: 6,433 Karma: 10773668 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Multiverse 6627A Device: K1 to PW3	Those included tarballs were residue left in my install bin when a kindletool (old version) had a temp file failure with the "." tempdir kludge. If I forgot to delete them, the next build (even with a good kindletool) snarfed them up as part of the package (what happened with the first mediafire upload). However, I just looked in my scrollback buffer, and the intermittent fail I just mentioned was preceded by a "dir" which showed ONLY install.sh in my install folder. The only thing I did to make it work on the next attempt was to delete the destination Update.bin files of the same name. Regarding slashes, mingw kindletool fails with a backslash in the path argument. Interestingly, at one job I worked at back in the day, we had the source code for MS-DOS 1.0 (which I read front to back), and it supported BOTH forward slashes and backslashes in file paths (at least in the source code, but I never tried it because we were adding DOS API support to a unix-ish system. For some reason Microsoft REMOVED forward slash path support in later versions (perhaps to discourage Unix fans?). Back in the day I had a shelf of AT&T unix books, and I wrote a kernel driver for our custom hardware. My main development system (early rare expensive laptop) had a small (first gen) LCD with medium greenish-grey background and slightly darker bluish-grey squashed (not pixel doubled) characters (not backlit, and highly dependent on bright lighting and viewing angle, some of which were unreadable altogether). My eyes hurt just remembering the late night coding binges sessions in those days... I cannot even remember how many device drivers (and bare-metal embedded firmware from total scratch, including cutting and jumpering mistakes I found on prototype hardware) I wrote in my lifetime. Typically most device drivers began life as diagnostics, and grew sideways from there... Probably why I still enjoy native programs and I am looking and writing kernel mode drivers (for "rootkit/hiding hacks from amazon" support?)... Last edited by geekmaster; 04-18-2016 at 08:03 PM.

05-29-2018, 07:31 PM	#185
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,477 Karma: 26012494 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	Finally tagged v1.6.5 . Should support everything up to the KOA2. Discontinued the Cygwin binaries, because they're a PITA to build (I'd have to reboot, and, well, reinstall Cygwin). Should you really need to use it under Cygwin, it's fairly easy to build. (NB: Yes, that means updated snapshots will come, Soon(TM)). EDIT: Snapshots are here! Yay! throws confetti Last edited by NiLuJe; 05-30-2018 at 11:51 PM.

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04-18-2016, 09:04 PM	#183
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,477 Karma: 26012494 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	I'll probably add the tmpfile templates to the archive exclude list as a workaround, that should take care of that. I'll see if I can figure out what happens with backslashes, but don't hold your breath on that one .

04-19-2016, 02:33 PM	#184
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,477 Karma: 26012494 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	There, 1.6.4.69 should automatically exclude its own tempfile . (Which in turn prevents it from trying to sign it, because the standard libarchive check (which is what's tripped in @GM's example) doesn't account for that ).

07-08-2019, 10:07 AM	#186
heyman Connoisseur Posts: 76 Karma: 2000 Join Date: Apr 2019 Device: sony	what does "PSA" mean???????????

07-08-2019, 01:49 PM	#188
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,477 Karma: 26012494 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	Strange, I was convinced it stood for "Don't Feed The Troll"... .

12-21-2021, 09:15 PM	#189
Deobulakenyo Guru Posts: 703 Karma: 2153490 Join Date: Aug 2021 Location: Stupid Philippines Device: Kobo Libra 2, Boyue Likebook P78	hi. i am trying to extract wallpapers from a kindle update file (5.14.1) and when i run the kindletool, it opens a cmd window so fast, i do not know how to use this. Can anyone help me guide me to do this? Thanks

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