[Sugar-devel] incremental activity update

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:43, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At OLE Nepal we have difficulties with updating activities because our
> main educational activity is so huge. Aayush Poudel implemented an
> incremental activity update which I have now merged with the standard
> software updater. When updating activities and content, the updater
> now only downloads the files of the new activity that have changed,
> greatly reducing time and bandwidth needed for updates.
>
> Patches at
> http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1499
>
> We're also adding the patch I used in paraguay so that the updater
> does not try to go online when the school server has an activity
> available:
> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9259
>
> I hope this is useful for other deployments too!

Wonder how we could make it easier for other deployments to benefit
from these changes.

Do you have plans to push the changes to the sugar-update-control repo
and spin new F9 rpms?

Regards,

Tomeu

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