General: May 2008 Archives

As you are all aware of, I own an iPod Touch. What you may not be aware of is that it was one of those that had serial numbers starting with 9C737. If you don’t know what that means, google can help. This is quite a problematic issue, and so I’ve been harassing Apple [NASDAQ: AAPL] since pretty much as soon as I got it. However, due to lack of Apple Store near me (I can either go across 3 hours time zone difference to visit the one in country; or hop the border for the one down in the states), it was never resolved.

Well, that all changed.

It has come to my attention that Installer is acting up, and I suspect the 3.1 update is to blame for this.  Here's a brief of what I've observed...

As you may know, if you launch Installer from shell, you can see the debug outputs.

As of 3.1, we (myself, and a few other geeks that are working on Cydia and new Repo Source crawler) noticed that Installer now attempts to reload 4 sources at a time instead of 1 at a time.  In theory, this is a good move, and it should drastically help the reload time.  However, further reviews have shown that this change in their code have actually cause Installer to, in fact, slow down.

This forking process, if designed properly, will be able to help Installer to reload MUCH MUCH more quickly, and you may not even need Repo Source any more.  However, we noticed a very odd bug with this process NullRiver have added...  Here's a brief of what IS suppose to happen, versus what is ACTUALLY happening.