Okay, this latest version of mingw kindletool creates both ota and ota2 update files. However, one time it reported:
Code:
..\..\kindletool create ota2 -d k5g * ../Update_autorun_k5g_ota2_0.1.GM_install.bin
Building OTA V2 (FD04) update package '../Update_autorun_k5g_ota2_0.1.GM_install.bin' for 1 device (Kindle 5 Touch WiFi+3G), Min. OT
A: 0, Target OTA: MAX, Critical: 0, Cert: 0, 0 Metadata.
a install.sh <-
a kindletool_create_tarball_a06276
archive_write_header() failed: Can't add archive to itself.
a install.sh.sig
a kindletool_create_tarball_a06276.sig
a update-filelist.dat.sig
a update-filelist.dat
I deleted all the update.bin files and reran it, and it succeeded, so some intermittent glitch. Until that "uninitialized whatever" gets unborked, perhaps the readme should say if it fails run it again? Anyway, it works well enough to be useful, so thanks much for that...
If you have find yourself sitting on your thumbs with nothing to do (
), one minor annoyance with kindletool (for windows-dependent folks) is that windows won't do
tab-completion for filenames with '/' in the path (but '\' works) and kindletool does not support '\', so I start with '\' then after tab-completion I back-arrow and overtype '/'. Nice if (some day
RSN) kindletool could also support '\' (because it is unlikely windows will ever support '/' for tab-completion). Plus, it seems "
highly illogical" to see a command line with backlashes on the left and forward slashes on the right.