zaurus-updater: The tar utility found on the Sharp inbuilt root filesystems used for reflashing the devices has bugs, one being that it won't create device files. We therefore need an external sane tar binary to successfully extract the root filesystem onto the device. This adds such a binary for spitz and borzoi.

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/packages/zaurus-updater/spitz/updater.sh b/packages/zaurus-updater/spitz/updater.sh
index 73aa12c9a7..a0483a1371 100755
--- a/packages/zaurus-updater/spitz/updater.sh
+++ b/packages/zaurus-updater/spitz/updater.sh
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ fi
 ### Check model ###
 /sbin/writerominfo
 MODEL=`cat /proc/deviceinfo/product`
-if [ "$MODEL" != "SL-C3000" ]
+if [ "$MODEL" != "SL-C3000" ] && [ "$MODEL" != "SL-C3100" ]
 then
 	echo 'MODEL:'$MODEL
 	echo 'ERROR:Invalid model!'
@@ -92,6 +92,23 @@ then
 	done
 fi
 
+### Check that we have a valid tar
+for TARNAME in gnu-tar GNU-TAR
+do
+	if [ -e /mnt/cf/$TARNAME ]
+	then
+		TARBIN=/mnt/cf/$TARNAME
+	fi
+done
+
+if [ ! -e $TARBIN ]; then
+	echo 'Please place a valid copy of tar as "gnu-tar" on your card'
+	echo 'Please reset'
+	while true
+	do
+	done
+fi
+
 mkdir -p $TMPPATH > /dev/null 2>&1
 
 cd $DATAPATH/
@@ -243,13 +260,17 @@ do
     
 		cd /hdd1
 		echo 'Now extracting...'
-		gzip -dc $DATAPATH/$TARGETFILE | tar xf -
+		gzip -dc $DATAPATH/$TARGETFILE | $TARBIN xf -
 		if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
 		    echo "Error!"
 		    exit "$?"
 		fi
 
 		echo 'Success!'
+		
+		#This can be useful for debugging
+		#/bin/sh -i
+		
 		# remount as RO
 		cd /
 		umount /hdd1