updatinator status, issues

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 17:00 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> I've updated autoupdatinator (the peer-to-peer mDNS version of the
> updatinator downloader) to work with the new repository layout where
> manifests are stored as blobs. I've tested it by publishing an apache
> http server with a static avahi server file, and it works well.
> 
> I also updated the server-release tool that lets you publish the olpc:s
> current image via avahi, but when testing this on my XOs I immediately
> ran into an issue. When trying to download a blob I got a 404 error. It
> turns out this was due to the manifest listing /var/lib/rpm/__db.001,
> which gets removed from the root filesystem at boot.
> 
> In general I think there are problems with trying to do updates like
> this if we don't have a pristine version of the current image (even when
> using e.g. rsync and not updatinator), and we're currently modifying the
> image all over the place (writing logs, removing rpm db files etc). What
> is the current status of the vserver work? Perhaps we need to start
> thinking about that stuff now so we can get robust updates...
> 
> Anyway, the updatinator stuff is in git for people who'd like to play
> with the code.

I did an update from 530 -> 535 yesterday and it worked perfectly,
preserving all my user data.  Nice job.

Dan