alexl83 Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 (edited) Wouldn't it be more manageable to use the sdcard as a unionfs on the Pineapple ? Would eliminate the need for infusions to be coded for installation/dependencies on sd card, and would eliminate the ugly/hacky need to symlink to root files pertaining to packages installed on the sd (think about init scripts). Just Wishlisting. Edited September 8, 2014 by alexl83 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxtrot Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 AFAIK infusion devs don't do anything out of the ordinary for dependencys... what exactly are you thinking of? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexl83 Posted September 7, 2014 Author Share Posted September 7, 2014 (edited) Installed evilportal; by default it installs nodogsplash onto main memory, not sd; so I manually installed nodogsplash to sd and I had to link a bunch of files/dirs from /sd to / (think about repeating everytime an upgrade comes, for every package) so I thought it would be nice to have just a root tree comprising flash and sdcard in unionfs; no more fiddling, 1 choice less to manage in opkg, more elegant, more manageable, just my 2 cents ;-) Every time an update comes out, configurations are not lost; and an sd backup would take care of such configurations for all the other cases. Edited September 7, 2014 by alexl83 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bytedeez Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 I actually like that idea. However I always assumed the reason why the "install to sd storage" option wasn't avalible for some infusions was due to that infusion operating better on internal storage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexl83 Posted September 8, 2014 Author Share Posted September 8, 2014 Some infusions let you choose to install deps to Internal/SD while others don't; I tried installing manually to SD for p0f & evilportal and found no problems (apart from symlinking to / which I did manually), we'll see if any problem arises. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxtrot Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Then its just something you should recommend to the devs :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bytedeez Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 Alex, I'm gonna assume you are using a class 10 sd card (which you should) but have you tried using the standard sd card that comes with the pineapple and seeing if any issues arrive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexl83 Posted September 9, 2014 Author Share Posted September 9, 2014 Currently I'm testing this with the included 2gb sd card, in my case a class 6 card. It's not giving me problems whatsoever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbi3 Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 The reason why there is no option to install nodogsplash to SD on Evil Portal is because back in the day of the MK 4 when I had initially developed Evil Portal there were a lot of dependencies that were needed (2 kmods which i don't remember) and it was a huge pain to get everything happy and I didn't want to have to deal with support for it so the option was just never there. However in the next release of Evil Portal I see no reason to not have an install to sd option available Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexl83 Posted September 9, 2014 Author Share Posted September 9, 2014 (edited) The reason why there is no option to install nodogsplash to SD on Evil Portal is because back in the day of the MK 4 when I had initially developed Evil Portal there were a lot of dependencies that were needed (2 kmods which i don't remember) and it was a huge pain to get everything happy and I didn't want to have to deal with support for it so the option was just never there. However in the next release of Evil Portal I see no reason to not have an install to sd option available Thank you, I think it would be a nice addition, however, I think a single filesystem would be a useful upgrade =) Edited September 9, 2014 by alexl83 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whistle Master Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 (edited) I try for my infusions to also let the user choosing where to install the dependencies. Some of them are not updated yet but will be in future releases (e.g. p0f). Others requires more than just installing a package (e.g. sslsplit and generation of SSL certificate). Edited September 10, 2014 by Whistle Master Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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