How to update activities

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> > We just had this discussion with Kim yesterday.  IMO, we should
> > maintain a process/database for countries to track the activity packs
> > they've used in deployments, so that we can find out which versions of
> > activities went where.  G1G1 is a subset of this problem.  Chris'
> > activity pack build script works from the official package repos,
> > IIRC, so Dennis is still 'maintaining' the official activity versions
> > via checking them in there.
> >
>
>  Hmmm... I wonder why you're thinking centralized system?

*OLPC* should keep records.  I'm not talking about laptop software in
the first three sentences of this paragraph.

>  Each laptop knows very well what activities are installed, and could
>  query a repository for updates.

Yes, activities state themselves where to look for updates.  See:
  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_bundles#Future_Properties
--scott

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