Upgrading your system with updatinator

[John (J5) Palmieri]

I'm adding this to build 501 as a directory in /root for testing.  Alex
can you work on getting these tools into an RPM?

On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 14:41 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> I've set up an updatinator repository at
> http://olpc.download.redhat.com/updatinator/ which contains all
> devel_ext3 and devel_jffs2 from build 400 up to build 499. (The total
> repository size for this is about 2 gig.) It also has binary diffs for
> changed files between all consecutive releases, which should get faster
> downloads when going to the next version.
> 
> I've tried this by doing live updates from/to various versions on a
> virtualized system and a single update (406-410) on a real XO. I will do
> more testing on the XO, but it seems to work well.
> 
> I've created a tarball with everything you need to get this going on
> your laptop, including a script that drives it all.
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/alexl/olpc/update-xo-070712.tar.gz
> 
> Just untar this and run the upgrade-xo.sh script. Its interactive and
> will ask you for some extra info on the first run, and then you just
> type in the version you want to upgrade (or downgrade) to and it'll pull
> things down and upgrade.
> 
> This should make it pretty easy to keep your machine uptodate. Just
> re-run update-xo.sh when there is a new release out.
> 
> NOTE: The peer-to-peer part of updatinator (autoupdatinator) doesn't
> work at the moment, as I've done some changes to the repository layout
> and it hasn't been updated to handle that yet.
> 
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