OLPC-Update + RPMs WAS:Re: OLPC XO Opera browser as Sugar activity

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
>> We chose a monolithic update solution because of several deficiencies,
>> *for our primary use case*, of all package-based upgrade solutions with
>> which we were familiar at the time. Package-based update solutions with
>> which we were familiar:
>
> ...
>> These were some of the considerations that led to the development of the
>> olpc-update technology.
>
> All reasonable, and the snapshot based approach has certain key
> advantages for some uses. There is one thing that really bothers me,
> however, and makes me suspect that we cannot actually use the snapshot
> approach long term: that it completely bypasses rpm's preinst/postinst
> scripts.

That is not the case.  rpm's preinst/postinst script are run when the
image is built.
 --scott

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