[sugar] Making updating easier

[Kim Quirk]

Sounds great! We've discussed a similar thing here, but I don't
believe there has been any time for that.

For g1g1 people there could possibly be 2 options - 1. Upgrade from
656 to 8.1.1, with the automatic second step of adding activities; or
2. Cleanstall to the 8.1.1 build that already includes activities (a
signed candidate for this is available today).

If we can keep the upgrade or cleaninstall very simple, that would be great!

Thanks for any help any can bring to this!

Kim




On 6/21/08, Christoph Derndorfer <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> one of the things that repeatedly came up during a greet meetup at
> Friends Community School near DC which we had earlier today was that
> updating the software on the XOs was still too painful for many people.
>
> So especially with G1G1 2008 looming on the horizon I'm thinking that it
> might make sense to come up with an easier way to update the software.
>
> Some of the potential solutions discussed are
>
> * adding a separate activity that basically acts as a simplified gui for
> olpc-update, allowing users to upgrade to the latest signed
> software-builds (with an option to include release candidates)
> * integrating update functionality into the sugar-control-panel
> * adding a gui for Bert Freudenberg's script
>
> What do you guys think?
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
>
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