* John McAleely <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I think each channel does have a separate series of build > numbers. Someone from the landing team can confirm, I think. > > > * Do the build numbers ever reset to 1? For example, when > > the Ubuntu release changes? > > I believe they can only be at '1' in a channel once.
Yes, each channel has its own build number scheme. At the moment we have 35 public channels per device. And the channels generally change at least every six months with the Ubuntu release (though sometimes more often). So we keep cycling through builds 1 to ~200-ish on every device on every channel about twice per year, and the build numbers thus mean almost nothing by themselves. It would be very nice if we had a *short* unique identifier for every build, but at the moment we do not. > > 8. Whether the image is writable or not. > > I notice it is often the first question our support team asks > OEM support teams when dealing with referred problem reports. It's a common expectation that Debian-based systems are writable and can use apt-get to add or manage packages. I know at least, for me personally, the very first thing I'd do with an Ubuntu phone is make it writable and start installing the programs I care about. But Ubuntu Touch breaks this expectation... and I'd be surprised to find out that this is unintended and not really supported. So of course support needs to know this. It's very common, and having the system suddenly break after an update is surprising behavior. The obvious deduction is "the update broke my phone", not "configuring it like a normal Ubuntu computer started the countdown on the fail clock". This will be an ongoing issue until the phones switch to Snappy, where apt-get isn't available (or, if things go well, where apt-get will live in a special container intended for exactly this type of use). -- Selene -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
