2008/10/31 David Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We are all getting used to the new slick version 8.2
Cool! > (a) Will the XS support update service, caching updates so that they are > only downloaded once? Yes - look for wiki documentation (and posts on this list) about - "xs-rsync" for core OS updates - activity server > (b) With version 0.4, is it possible to load the new updates (OS and > activities) on the server so that the laptops can update to 8.2 from the > server automatically or with prompting? (i.e. if there is no Internet or > Internet is too slow) Not easily. You can install the required packages for 0.4 but it xs-0.5 has everything presintalled and in place. Still, the software on the older version of the XO isn't that smart, and won't recognise the server (the software on XO-8.2 is a bit smarter but not that much). We should put together a mini-guide on how to do this with xs-0.5 by faking the DNS entries. > (c) Will updates from 8.2.0 onwards be supported by the server? Yes. > We are still having to go through all several hundred laptops in a trial > site with a set of flash drives to update them to 8.2. We have to also > update all the activities, as even in places where there is Internet, it is > too expensive and time consuming (slow access) to use the automatic update > facility on each laptop. (or tell me, if we try this using server version > 0.4, maybe it is already be caching these updates? No?) olpc-update is not cacheable unless you use xs-rsync on the server, unfortunately. > We are missing the ability to download a bundle of activities. Now, we have > to individually download each latest version of an activity separately into > the "bundles" folder. This is only a minor inconvenience but each site has > to do this without error. Hmmm, you can prepare an activity bundle. Look in the wiki for that exact name :-) At this stage, the process is a bit awkward -- I am hoping to make it smoother for 8.2->9.1 and 9.1->9.2. Still, we can document how to make it as easy as possible. However, for large numbers of laptops you'll quickly saturate the RF spectrum -- cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
