#3881 HIGH First D: New upgrade mechanism should support upgrade from USB

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#3881: New upgrade mechanism should support upgrade from USB
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  Reporter:  cscott  |       Owner:  cscott                
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new                   
  Priority:  high    |   Milestone:  First Deployment, V1.0
 Component:  distro  |     Version:                        
Resolution:          |    Keywords:  mstone,cscott         
  Verified:  0       |  
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Comment(by cscott):

 Ideas: economize USB bandwidth using the manifest?  Read through manifests
 to get a list of interesting files, then snarf only those files from the
 USB key?

 Desiderata: efficient operation on FAT filesystem (even if this means
 encapsulating another filesystem loopback).

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Ticket URL: <https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3881#comment:1>
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