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Hexxeh / rpi-update

An easier way to update the firmware of your Raspberry Pi
MIT License
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Update README.md #247

Closed flobee closed 5 years ago

flobee commented 7 years ago

provide security of commands! if a user like me in the first step dont really understand what it does.

popcornmix commented 7 years ago

This seems more confusing to me.

To give an example of a command that is commented out just seems to provide an additional level of confusion.

I don't believe I have ever seen documentation give an example command commented out for security.

I'll leave this up here to see if others think it helps.

flobee commented 7 years ago

Hi, Thx for feedback Thats a hint and not a technical security item. A human security item (i would call). People find this command, starting it and end up in a not really working state ... Like me in: https://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-firmware/issues/151 :)

Well its not debian but there should exists a manpage and/or a --help to get into it! Just a link would be good and the info how to use it with git hashes to pick a different version.

For me: starting rpi-update and will be ask for: "Do you want it y/N" is not good. Because no one knows what happen in detail. But people are snoopy :) rather choosing yes. Except they know *nix systems :) I tested it. But i think i got engouh expirience to solv it if its going wrong. There are more and more real enduser around. Playing with stuff they know from windows :)

There are already a some blogs helping how to use rpi-update. Put it in your script would be my suggestion to find out if its that what i'm looking for .

Kind regards flobee

lurch commented 5 years ago

I agree that this PR doesn't seem helpful (and so should be rejected). There's currently a discussion about rpi-update at https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=241977