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Originally Posted by Booxtor
Hi,
This claim is not completely true. If you are hacking on the update file and do your customisation by modifiying it (copying of fonts, dicts, screensavers etc. in it), please don't be surprized when that kind of customisation is gone after update with a new (not modified) file. It is actually not that much complicated to modify the update file again. Regular installed fonts and dicts are not affected during update.
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Well, update resets website bookmarks, web cache and history, cookies, wifi passwords, website passwords, reading history, music player settings and (probably, i dont use them) - bookmarks. All this is clearly user space and should not be touched by updates - it is really strange somebody came up with an update scheme that deletes all that on a linux machine - there's no such technical need whatsoever! (On the other hand the MAC address is changed too, which is "hardware" and should remain constant) Of course you can re-type all passwords and recreate all bookmarks by hand, but why the heck do that?
To be more positive, I have a question. I stored all the user space databases before updating (the whole /root/ directory, that is). Now please tell me what happens if i simply overwrite the new /root/ directory with the old one? Beside my own case, if simply overwriting the root directory is safe, it should be trivial to write a backup script to backup all user settings to sd card and then recreate them after update.