[Dextrose] Py roadmap: updater

[Gary Martin]

Hi Anish,

On 14 Dec 2010, at 15:05, Anish Mangal <anish at sugarlabs.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> tch, roberto, carlos and me had a nice discussion on the road-map
> ahead for the xo deployment in py. Among other things, we talked about
> the way the xo's are going to be updated. The current method using
> nand flash is 'painfully slow', and there *must* be a better way to
> update the xo's.

Just wanted to check that nand blasting has been investigated? Excluding the backup of Journal and subsequent restore process, you can nand blast a fresh build image to room full of XO's in little more than the time it takes to flash one.

    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Nandblaster

--Gary

> tch tells me that work on the yum based updater is almost finished. We
> have about 10 xo's here at the pyeduca office and can quickly get to
> testing. It would be ideal, if we can have the yum updater pushed in
> the dextrose mainline, so that we have plenty to time to test
> extensively (and subsequently, not drop any bombs at caacupe ;-)). The
> tentative date for the arrival of new xo's here is feb. Also, the
> current 0.84 xo's will be updated to dextrose, so we should have a
> stable yum updater before that.
> 
> Aside from this, I'm working on the microformat based updater (also a
> requirement here). I guess it already works, but I'll have a better
> version out very soon.
> 
> tch leaves for uy in 10 days, so we're hoping to start testing before that.
> 
> -- 
> Anish | anish at sugarlabs.org
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