[Sugar-devel] Sugar Updater

[Walter Bender]

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Kevin Gordon <kgordon420 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn
> <alanjas at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> "I think the activity updater does not look for the last activity in ASLO,
>> but to a wiki page created to every release. And probably the wiki page is
>> not updated."
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>> If the latest activities are in ASLO.. why continue using the wiki and not
>> directly check in ASLO ????????
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> I believe this may  be by design, so that if one has to do a full restore of
> the machine, one can then easily put it back to the stable state that
> existed at build time, updating only activities that had changed from os
> build to final release.  As such, in a perfect world, this would indeed show
> no updates.
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> One can easily then update whichever specific activities are wanted to be
> updated to versions subsequent to that stable build by going to ASLO.  For
> example, there may exist many updated applications in ASLO that will not run
> on older versions of Sugar, and to auto-update them via this may then
> introduce the same instabilities that caused a restore in the first place:-)
>
> Just my theory.  I do not speak for the designers/developers.
>

Your theory is not far off the mark. Deployments choose to maintain
particular versions of activities, so the activity updater is
configured to respect those choices.

regards.

-walter

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