[Dextrose] Py roadmap: updater

[David Farning]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Martin Abente
<martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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,
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>>> On 14 Dec 2010, at 15:05, Anish Mangal <anish at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
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>>> > 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.
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> Just to clarify, nand blasting is a great tool for initial install.. but is
> not as a short/middle term updating system.

Is there a new feature page on the SL wiki for the yum based updater?
If not I can start one to describe the usecases we targeting.

david

>>> --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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