[sugar] sugar-update: your friendly neighborhood auto-installation script
Jim Gettys
jg
Wed Aug 29 09:33:55 EDT 2007
Could you please get this into the wiki, and a pointer to it from the
auto-reinstallation page?
Thanks,
- Jim
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 23:48 -0400, Eben Eliason wrote:
> I got really tired of the monotony that I go through daily to put a
> new build on my USB drive. The attached script is my moderately
> robust solution to the problem, and I thought that others might care
> to take it for a spin as well. Here's the usage (you can also view
> usage with -h or --help):
>
> Usage:
>
> sugar-update.oy [-lLsv] [-b build] [directory]
>
> Description:
>
> This script will download an autoinstallation image (.img and .crc) to
> the specified [directory]. Any images already present within this
> directory will be deleted before the download begins. If no directory is
> specified, the current working directory will be used.
>
> Options:
>
> -b Specify a build number; defaults to latest development build
> -l Print the associated change log
> -L Print the change log without performing a download
> -s Download the latest stable build; overrides the -b option
> -v Verbose
>
> Common Example:
>
> sugar-update.py -vl /Volumes/MyFlashDrive/boot/
>
> Feel free to add functionality and/or robustness. I may add support
> for downloading a firmware update in the future, but it wasn't on my
> requirements list for today. I hope others find it useful, even if it
> is soon outdated by some fancy built-in auto-update jazz.
>
> - Eben
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