olpc-update, update.1, and activities

[Benjamin M. Schwartz]

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 15:59 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> Upgrade via
> olpc-update will work fine, but you'll have to use the customization
> key (without the four-button erase-everything step) or other mechanism
> (download, unzip) to install the activities.

This is absolutely unacceptable for G1G1.  Can you imagine the mountain
of bad press when Update.1 renders 50,000 laptops completely useless?
Also, the solution is trivial.

Once Update.1 goes to final release, OLPC should also spin a
Update.1-G1G1 build.  This build simply contains the additional activity
set for G1G1, in /home/olpc/activities.  If olpc-update is not capable
of placing files into /home/olpc/activities, then installation can be
done by a two-line script in Update.1-G1G1 that runs on first boot and
installs the activities, perhaps from a .zip file elsewhere in the
build.

Please, /please/ don't advertise a "release" for G1G1 owners that has no
activities in it.