Well, the title is only partially accurate. The real issue is that there is no way to back up a user's data if the OS is borked sans developer key. If the autoreinstallation image's backup features were incorporated in offline upgrade, that would solve a lot of headaches.
Use case: "Alice has worked on her final paper for months, and one day her XO won't start. She has no backups, and no alternate OS image." Now, "Alice reinstalls her OS using the autoreinstallation image, which backs up /home/olpc and restores it when done. " Of course, once the boot-image is signed, we'll make a nice package for G1G1 users, not all of the "sugar-update.py" stuff, but getting the image signed is the important part for the average DRM'd user. If you're not familiar: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Autoreinstallation_image and http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Secure_Upgrade Bug report: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7163 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Autoreinstallation-image-is-not-signed.-tp17612809p17612809.html Sent from the OLPC Software development mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel