Re: [Server-devel] pushing activities to XOs
On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 10:28 -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > > Jerry, > > > > I had to manually add "http://schoolserver/activities"; to the "Group" > > under "Software Update" in the Control Panel. Then, when I run the > > update, it pings the XS and grabs new activities. Is this expected > > behavior? > > Yes. For a deployment you would use olpc-os-builder to preset that address. > > And yes, there is a missing link in that this currently must be > user-invoked; theres no fully automated way of pushing activities yet. > I hope to be a part of solving that in a future release cycle. > > Daniel Hi All: I've cc'd other that may have some interest in this and may be able to chime in on the subject. I'd prefer to call ""Software Update" in the Control Panel" "Activity Updater from OLPC". You're able to call "Activity Updater from OLPC" from the cli in a terminal with ./model.py and get a listing but need something the equivalent to view.py for use from the cli to be useful for blind installation. We've in OLPCAU have been using sugar-client[1] to run yum in the background, so I've been thinking that we could maybe extend sugar-client to run "Activity Updater" in the same way. Think the additions to sugar-client and sugar-update-control might be of some interest to those who use sugar-client to push updates to the XO's. This is also related to patches[2] sent to the mailing-list altering the behaviour in that only pre-existing activities would be selected for updates, here is the use case for improvements suggested. This has opened up an avenue in which we can offer bundles that are not installed on the image but can be user installed on demand[3]. This requires a minor change to OOB to use a different url[4] for the update. We have deployed this in the field and have received positive feed. Jerry 1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Server_Kit/sugar-client 2. http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2011-December/034022.html 3. https://sugardextrose.org/issues/383 4. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/OLPCAU/11.3.1/Addons ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] pushing activities to XOs
On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 10:28 -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > > Jerry, > > > > I had to manually add "http://schoolserver/activities"; to the "Group" > > under "Software Update" in the Control Panel. Then, when I run the > > update, it pings the XS and grabs new activities. Is this expected > > behavior? > > Yes. For a deployment you would use olpc-os-builder to preset that address. > Think if you use OOB to install system-wide you disable the auto-detection of schoolserver in sugar-update-control. Jerry ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] pushing activities to XOs
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > And yes, there is a missing link in that this currently must be > user-invoked; theres no fully automated way of pushing activities yet. > I hope to be a part of solving that in a future release cycle. Gonzalo recently drafted some notes on that, as we'd like to make it happen. The 13.1.0 cycle is insanely busy ATM so unclear/unlikely... m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] pushing activities to XOs
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Jerry, > > I had to manually add "http://schoolserver/activities"; to the "Group" > under "Software Update" in the Control Panel. Then, when I run the > update, it pings the XS and grabs new activities. Is this expected > behavior? Yes. For a deployment you would use olpc-os-builder to preset that address. And yes, there is a missing link in that this currently must be user-invoked; theres no fully automated way of pushing activities yet. I hope to be a part of solving that in a future release cycle. Daniel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] pushing activities to XOs
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote: >> On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 14:51 -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: >>> Is there a way to push activities (new or upgrades) or activity >>> bundles to XOs seamlessly via the XS? Been looking at the >>> documentation on the wiki, but no luck as yet... >>> >> >> http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/dbagnall/xs-activity-server.git/tree/README >> >> Think sugar-update-control supports looking for >> http://schoolserver/activities by default. >> >> Jerry >> >> >> > > Thanks. > > This will push activities to the XS and make these available at > http://schoolserver/activities I was wondering if its possible to > actually *push* the activity from the XS to the XO seamlessly, so if > we wanted to add new activities to the XO, we could push it from the > XS. > > By sugar-update-control do you mean the Software Update in the control > Panel (Settings)? Jerry, I had to manually add "http://schoolserver/activities"; to the "Group" under "Software Update" in the Control Panel. Then, when I run the update, it pings the XS and grabs new activities. Is this expected behavior? ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
