[OLPC-Devel] Switch to a sane packaging and upgrade system

[Iain (XO) Davidson]

ffm,
  Great suggstion !

I definitely discovered the issue, when I installed a bunch of packages via
'yum' (like 'update', and programs mc, vlc, emacs,etc). Then suddenly they
were gone after an update.

Doing something via 'yum update' and some trickery with the XS server / DNS
/ creative package naming, might be the solution.  Like, having an easy
method to 'yum update' via GUI after a 'olpc-update'.

Just my 2 cents to add to yours, :-)
-Iain

2008/1/16 ffm <ffm at intserverror.com>:

> olpc-update wipes out everything not in /home when it rsyncs. This would
> be otherwise fine, but the current use of olpc-update presents some
> difficulty in various use cases:
>
> 1) Alice's teacher wants her to use a flash (non-gnash working) web site
> for her homework. Her teacher had set it up for her in class, but as she
> walked home, her XO was auto-updated to the new version. This undid all of
> the changes that installed non-free flash, and made Alice late on her
> homework.
>
> 2) Bob is a developer. He tries out new packages on his development XO,
> but likes to be up to date with the latest joyride. Due to olpc-update's
> kill-it-all mentality, all of the wonderful things (VLC, Skype, etc) are
> wiped out multiple times a day.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> I thought we could just use a metapackage called olpc-standard, and make
> it depend on whatever is needed. That way, we still get to use a nice
> packaging system w/o removing all non /home customizations.
>
> -ffm
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