[Dextrose] Py roadmap: updater

[Martin Abente]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com>wrote:

> 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
>
>
Yeah, Paraguay was one of the first deployments to nand blast massively. But
it is not an option anymore. It is too expensive, and still requires a lot
of human effort to massively update laptops. And it does not make sense to
make fresh re install in most of the cases.


> --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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