I no longer find this very important as I have written a tool to act as a proxy between the daily image server and ubuntu-device-flash. However the original intention was to get the latest tar.xz images in system-image format which are harder to point at easily than the legacy cdimage tarballs, and to flash them to a device using the ubuntu-device-flash tool in order to keep testing latest Ubuntu dailies combined with whatever device tarball is built from custom trees.
So this would just download the latest mako tarballs and put them in ~/.cache/ubuntuimage and one could copy/link the ubuntu tarball to a 'server dir' with channel and index json files and in which one can run python -m SimpleHTTPServer then point the flash tool to it. The use case is not simply flashing the device but doing so using processes as close to the ones used for Nexus devices as possible. I agree though this is wishlist and low prio but still nice to have (say you have net connection in a location but no phone, and you have a phone but no network elsewhere so you first --download and only later flash. That's why I mentioned no need to check adb connectivity - which would also be nice for list-channels.) I agree it may not be a very common usecase. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1295148 Title: support --download-only option To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/goget-ubuntu-touch/+bug/1295148/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
