On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 19:35 -0300, Daniel Drake wrote: > On 14 April 2010 13:22, Bernie Innocenti <[email protected]> wrote: > > * Remove olpc-update and disable the /versions kludge (me, smparrish) > > Great work Bernie! > This is the only bit that seems a bit surprising to me.
I noticed that Stephen Parrish had removed olpc-update from F11-XO1, which made /versions also superfluous. Besides the nice saving in space, disabling the versioned fs considerably sped up olpc-os-builder. > Granted, the /versions system is a little perplexing (but it works, > and is being shipped on XO-1.5, so it has good support in the present > day). And granted, it doesn't work for large substantial updates, and > doesn't update activities. > > But it is a nice system for small updates, with fairly good > documentation. It has only a 15mb overhead. I also set up all the > infrastructure in Paraguay to push these to schools and XOs > automatically, and we actually rolled out a tiny update in 1 school to > test it (worked perfectly first time). And I documented it. > > Being the first deployment to run with this substantial software > update, it seems somewhat likely that you'll find a few niggly bugs > that would be nice to fix in the coming weeks. olpc-update would > provide you with a mechanism to do that with minimal effort. Hmmm... perhaps I should reconsider this decision. We'd first have to do some testing to ensure your original work still works well with F11-XO1. Last time I looked, the hostname of the update server was hardcoded inside olpc-update. Did you create a custom package to point it at the schoolserver? For a future release cycle, we may want to re-evaluate yum-updatesd as an alternative to olpc-updates which provides different trade-offs in terms of performance, robustness and distro integration. At the time olpc-update was written, yum was still awfully buggy and unreliable. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
