fast switching between v3alpha[357]

In order to do debugging on mp3tofid development, I need to quickly switch between v3alpha versions 3, 5 and 7. Doing a full upgrade (or downgrade) is slow and wipes out custom changes.

Is it safe to use mlord's upgrader tool to just extract the /empeg tree of each v3alpha image file and just replace these trees on the empeg, rather than doing a full upgrade/downgrade?

I didn't notice any other differences outside this tree in the hda5 filesystems of these versions, but there may be something other critical step in the upgrade.

Thanks,
Pim

That'll work.

For that matter, you probably only need just the player binary itself. Everything else is pretty much constant from release to release.

Cheers

For v3 (at least, those particular releases), Mark's right. You can just keep a copy of the player binary. Rather than use the upgrader, just stash a copy in /drive0 or something.

I did notice v3alpha5 has some extra fonts not in 3 and 7.

Pim

Ah, well, in that case, just tar up /empeg/bin and /empeg/lib and stash it somewhere.

I did notice v3alpha5 has some extra fonts not in 3 and 7.

That was a build system bug, not a deliberate change (which is why it was reverted in alpha 7). The player can't use those fonts, and won't notice if they aren't there.

Peter