On 14 April 2010 13:22, Bernie Innocenti bernie@codewiz.org 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.
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.
Daniel