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Upcoming Rockbox.org unavailability due to hosting drama
bluebrother:
Rockbox Utility did have an offline mode on the past. It always had problems, so ot was consciously decided to remove it. Also, the same would apply for all other bootloaders. Or builds, for that matter.
There's no problem in building the necessary command line tools and getting the necessary files. You just need to do it. Actually, installation was always first manually for all players. Only after that Rockbox Utility got the necessary support.
And it's not compiling the bootloader, you can download that. Rockbox Utility does the same. You need ipodpatcher or mks5lboot, depending on which Ipod you have. Which you can easily compile with cmake these days. And for ipodpatcher we have binaries available.
speachy:
I think the point being that if download.rockbox.org is down, then there's no way to download anything. :)
But again, you can compile everything needed from the source code, including the player firmware, bootloader, and the tools to manually install it.
Frankenpod:
--- Quote from: Bilgus on December 06, 2022, 09:10:22 AM ---Request all you want but if you are too lazy why expect someone else to tfake the initiative?
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I know, I know, I expected that response. It is of course an entirely fair point. (I had a dev environment set up once, but that computer had a hard-drive failure and haven't got round to getting it working again)
Just that if RBUtility had that option it would be useful for all users, making installation of RB independent from having access to the site, once you'd downloaded the components.
It's just a mite frustrating to have a local copy of the bootloader but no way to tell RBUtility to use it instead of trying to download it. I assume there were some technical issues that made using a local copy of the bootloader copy problematic, I just don't entirely grasp what makes it so different from downloading one, particularly as sometimes RBUtility uses cached copies of things.
Edit - answering my own question, I guess if someone were daft enough to select the wrong file as the bootloader they might brick their device?
amachronic:
--- Quote from: speachy on December 06, 2022, 09:52:51 AM ---I think the point being that if download.rockbox.org is down, then there's no way to download anything. :)
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Couldn't this be easily solved by mirroring the bootloaders at a secondary site? Then RButil could just be pointed at an alternate server URL.
speachy:
--- Quote from: amachronic on December 06, 2022, 05:00:48 PM ---Couldn't this be easily solved by mirroring the bootloaders at a secondary site? Then RButil could just be pointed at an alternate server URL.
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It's not just the bootloaders, it's potentially everything that rbutil could download. That currently amounts to 80-odd GB.
Also, IIRC download.rockbox.org typically uses something like 400GB/month in bandwidth.
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