[Dextrose] Py roadmap: updater

[Martin Abente]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Roberto Rodriguez Alcala <
rralcala at paraguayeduca.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 23:57 -0500, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 19:19 -0300, Roberto Rodriguez Alcala wrote:
> > >
> > > Bernie, I think that the idea is the same, but we're just putting
> > > aside the USB stick, and the logitics involved in provide and recover
> > > them, or checking that the students or teachers have one and know how
> > > to do the procedure. Anyway, USB o Repo we will require them to do the
> > > same update, I just think that the second method provide us a more
> > > effective method to reach a lot ( for now 37) of very distanced
> > > schools with a few qualified personal.
> >
> > Sure, I agree that a yum repo is a superior way to deliver updates, but
> > it won't work the first time, until we reflash with a version that
> > includes the updater.
> >
> > Note that the current builds also come with a controversial solution
> > called "olpc-update", which permits to update the whole system
> > atomically, using rsync and a forest of hardlinks in /versions. It has
> > the major flaw of requiring a lot of free space for major updates, but
> > if you're lucky it may work on most deployed laptops for the simple case
> > of switching from Dextrose 1 to Dextrose 2. Only a few MBs of packages
> > have changed.
> >
> >
> Sorry about the miss understanding, there's going to be a reflash to
> Dextrose 2 (including the updater) using USB sticks in the first time.
> Hoping it to be the last :)
>
>
Guess we will need start testing this yum updater ASAP, to make sure it
works properly before flashing those machines to dextrose 2. Otherwise we
could end again in the same situation.


>
> > > I had some feedback also, and some teachers doesn't want to do the
> > > update if they don't do the task with technical staff or they don't
> > > have a USB sticks.
> >
> > Sure, automatic updates done in the background are a lot less
> > "traumatic" for the less technical users.
> >
>
>
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