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kido.resuri · 02-11-2017, 05:24 PM

@tshering
Sure, that works to create a tgz archive, I use it also, thanks.
Apparently I thought that the KoboRoot.tgz must be zipped, like the one that the device downloads from the official update server. But now I figured out that it can be a pure KoboRoot.tgz as well. However, using a .zip one could rename it to any file name, using the .tgz, it must be KoboRoot.tgz.

And when I use 7za to create the zip file, for example:

Code:

"%the7zipexe%" a -tzip kobo-update.zip KoboRoot.tgz

Kobo downloads the zip file, but it can't uncompress it properly, and KoboRoot.tgz is not placed in /mnt/onboard/.kobo/ therefore the "update" does not happen.

02-11-2017, 05:24 PM	#31
kido.resuri Groupie Posts: 172 Karma: 4282 Join Date: Dec 2016 Location: Hungary Device: Kobo Aura H2O	@tshering Sure, that works to create a tgz archive, I use it also, thanks. Apparently I thought that the KoboRoot.tgz must be zipped, like the one that the device downloads from the official update server. But now I figured out that it can be a pure KoboRoot.tgz as well. However, using a .zip one could rename it to any file name, using the .tgz, it must be KoboRoot.tgz. And when I use 7za to create the zip file, for example: Code: "%the7zipexe%" a -tzip kobo-update.zip KoboRoot.tgz Kobo downloads the zip file, but it can't uncompress it properly, and KoboRoot.tgz is not placed in /mnt/onboard/.kobo/ therefore the "update" does not happen. Last edited by kido.resuri; 02-11-2017 at 05:27 PM.