[IAEP] ANNOUNCE: F11 for the XO-1 build 140py released

[Daniel Drake]

On 16 April 2010 19:52, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
>> Regardless of whether you use the updates bit or not, you'll want to
>> reinstate that server configuration so that the laptops can receive
>> lease updates before expiration (Raul told me that they have switched
>> this feature on a while back when school holidays were approaching).
>
> I'd say this is still working fine, because laptops perform activation
> from wifi just after being flashed with the new OS. Is there anything
> else I should check for? I have very little understanding of the
> internals of OATS.

This is the fetching of leases from the school server once they have
expired (or for the cases when there is no activation at all, e.g.
right after reflash). Thats the first way that laptops can receive
leases. This codepath does not execute at other times. And it only
works when you're in-school.

The other way that they receive leases is through the
olpc-update-query cronjob which basically ends up with
olpc-update-query querying the internet-based paraguayeduca mothership
once per day. This server will deliver updated leases to the XO
laptops *before* they expire, which has a few advantages. (for
example, there was one time when Raul realised that the current round
of leases were set to expire in the middle of a long school holiday.
this system was used to deliver much-extended leases in the final week
of school before the holidays set in).

>> I agree with the idea of using a more standard system, but I'd say
>> that yum is not yet a suitable replacement based on a discussion that
>> I started based on this exact question in the beginning of the XO-1.5
>> development cycle. It's in the archives.
>
> Interesting. Do you remember the subject?

update  mechanism for new releases

Daniel