[Dextrose] Py roadmap: updater

[Martin Abente]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Martin Abente <
martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com> wrote:

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

Just to clarify, nand blasting is a great tool for initial install.. but is
not as a short/middle term updating system.


> --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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