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NiLuJe · 06-23-2013, 07:01 PM

I'm back!

So, err, yeah, those updated packages will really happen sometime soon ^^. With a bit of luck, I'll manage to break things in new and interesting ways (after all, I did manage to run a rm -rf Kindle from the wrong directory only yesterday, so, yeah, NOT RUSTY!

)

Don't expect much activity from me for a while though, I have something like 4 months of posts to go through... -_-".

And to answer the repack question, provided you don't need to change the content of the package, the easiest way is probably simply to do a double convert (.bin => tgz, then .tgz => .bin), no need to even extract it (which helps avoiding directory structure issues, depending on how you repack it, and potentially double/wrong sig/dat files, if you happen to be running an old kindletool version).
Basically:

Code:

kindletool convert update_blah.bin
kindletool create ota2 -d kindle5 update_blah.tar.gz update_blah_repack.bin

IIRC.

06-23-2013, 07:01 PM	#61
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047190 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	I'm back! So, err, yeah, those updated packages will really happen sometime soon ^^. With a bit of luck, I'll manage to break things in new and interesting ways (after all, I did manage to run a rm -rf Kindle from the wrong directory only yesterday, so, yeah, NOT RUSTY! ) Don't expect much activity from me for a while though, I have something like 4 months of posts to go through... -_-". And to answer the repack question, provided you don't need to change the content of the package, the easiest way is probably simply to do a double convert (.bin => tgz, then .tgz => .bin), no need to even extract it (which helps avoiding directory structure issues, depending on how you repack it, and potentially double/wrong sig/dat files, if you happen to be running an old kindletool version). Basically: Code: kindletool convert update_blah.bin kindletool create ota2 -d kindle5 update_blah.tar.gz update_blah_repack.bin IIRC. Last edited by NiLuJe; 06-23-2013 at 07:08 PM.