Devel Digest, Vol 29, Issue 106

[Greg Smith]

Hi Martin,

We need keep that capability of upgrade from anywhere to anywhere if at 
all possible! That is a huge benefit for our customers and for our 
managing the scope of testing.

Even if we can just keep that from any 70x forward it will be a big help.

I know we hope 8.2.0 is rock solid but it may not be so we need an 
option to downgrade safely.

BTW on this issue below, I just talked to a sugar engineer and they plan 
to fix that before we ship 8.2.0.

Thanks,

Greg S

> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:25:17 +1200
> From: "Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Code name for 9.1.0
> To: "Morgan Collett" <morgan.collett at gmail.com>
> Cc: richard at laptop.org, devel at lists.laptop.org
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> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:16 AM, Morgan Collett
> <morgan.collett at gmail.com> wrote:
>> With olpc-update, it's not critical to update from version x to
>> version x+1 - we can skip versions as we don't depend on a particular
>> package state. (e.g. You can upgrade from 650 to joyride without
>> having to upgrade to 703 first...) In the future that could become
>> significant though if we have system changes affecting datastore
>> format changes or something which might make support easier if
>> upgrading from a known version.
> 
> I don't think that the ability to skip versions is going to hold long term.
> 
> The current setup is that olpc-updte does away with all the post-inst
> and related hooks, which means that running code has to have the
> smarts to upgrade/downgrade stored data formats (user documents,
> configuration options, etc). This can get burdensome quickly.
> 
> As of now for example, the promise of olpc-update (of booting back to
> the older version sanely) is broken between update-703 and current
> joyride as the ds format has changed in an incompatible way, and
> update-703 cannot read the new layout.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> 
> 
> m