Signed build for Italy

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
>  I just talked with the people of OLPC Italia.  They asked me
>  again if they could roll their own build on all laptops after
>  they receive them.
>
>  They'be put the translations in Pootle already.  I can help
>  them creating the custom build.  They say they will test it
>  themselves of course.
>
>  They are concerned about security updates from upstream, but
>  I told them OLPC so far does not have plans to issue them.
>
>  The last remaining issue is how they can put this unsigned
>  Italian build on all the laptops they order, as I'm pretty
>  sure OLPC would not want to sign it.
>
>  Italy is not interested in anti-theft of course.  Could they
>  have the laptops of SKU 23 already unlocked from the factory?

Technically yes, but I am worried about Italy isolating themselves
from future updates from OLPC.  The "deployment team" will have to
make a decision there.  How large is the Italy deployment (or is this
a pilot)?
 --scott

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