[Dextrose] Py roadmap: updater

[Roberto Rodriguez Alcala]

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 :) 


> > 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.
>