Thread: Jailbreaking Kindle 5.1 Unsuccessful
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Old 05-23-2012, 11:35 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by geekmaster View Post
Why did you leave out the data.tar.gz file? This way they need to drop two files on the kindle...

IMHO there should be ONE file that drops everthing needed including the files above AND the jailbreak data.tar.gz. While updating this method, now that data.tar.gz extracts in diags, it would be nice if it deposited the /usr/local files needed by dropbear SSH... IMHO
Well... yeah. Repackaging 3 files into only one isn't exactly a huge issue. Then again, unpacking 2 files instead of one isn't either.

For updating the data.tar.gz file, I admit that I'm not going to touch this one, because it got way over my head. What used to be a tiny and understandable script has now become about 600 lines of code(*), distributed over 3 different files, supporting multiple methods on multiple devices etc. I just don't know what is important and what is not in that version - so I simply don't touch it.

(*) Contrast with the 3rd paragraph of https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...64&postcount=4 (yes, this has also grown in the mean time).
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