kobopatch

kobopatch

An improved patching system for Kobo eReaders. See https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=297338 . Download patches for v4.9.11311+ here.

Progress:

• Core patching functionality (./patchlib)
• Drop-in replacement for patch32lsb with exactly the same output and features (./patch32lsb)
• All-in-one patcher (base features) (./kobopatch)
• All-in-one patcher (./kobopatch)
• kobopatch: support new format
• kobopatch: support old format
• kobopatch: pluggable format system
• Automatic builds
• Alternative patch format (which has more reliable and has less complex parsing)
• Manually check hashes of output from both batch formats with each other and the old patcher with all patches enabled to ensure reliability
• Patch overrides to force enable/disable patches in a portable way.
• Patch consistency check
• Convert old patch zips
• Translation file support
• Zlib support
• CSS extraction tool (./cssextract)
• Support for adding additional files

Improvements/Goals:

• More readable code
• Unit tests
• Built-in support for generating kobo update files
• More modular
• Embeddable into another application
• Single file
• Better consistency checking of config and result
• Easier cross-platform build support without external deps
• Optional improved patch format
• Faster and lower memory consumption
• No need for temp files
• Save and restore lists of enabled patches
• Translation file support
• more (coming soon)
• Zlib support (coming soon)

Testing:

• Unit tests (automatically run by Travis CI): go test -v ./...
• Real tests (compares original and new): rewrite coming soon, already done manually