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Old 02-14-2013, 01:48 AM   #10
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Here are some confirmed facts:
  • initramfs updater looks only for lowercase update file names - "update*.bin"
  • OTOH rootfs updater is case insensitive when it comes to update file names (that's why full updates begin with lowercase 'u' while incremental updates begin with uppercase 'U')
  • initramfs updater silently fails if there are two or more "update*.bin" files and leaves the files as they are
  • rootfs updater (the framework part to be more precise) deletes all but one the first one in ASCII order and then happily installs the leftover
  • rootfs updater ignores zero-length "update files", doesn't even delete them
I'll utilize these facts in version 2 of this hack.

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