← Back to team overview

canonical-ci-engineering team mailing list archive

Re: maguros stuck for upstream merger

 

On 06.11.2013 16:47, Andy Doan wrote:
On 11/05/2013 05:04 PM, Michał Sawicz wrote:
One thing I've been doing recently is, instead of flashing, executing

$ system-image-cli --build 0 --verbose

as root on the device. This results in downloading the latest full image
and upgrading through the image-based upgrade system. For me this means
I'm not losing any data (other than stuff modified directly on the
made-writable rootfs), and feels like a safer solution than flashing
everything every time.

It seems somewhat more sensitive to network issues, but other than that
has been great. Maybe that's something that would increase the stability?

This is pretty interesting. Is it safe to run if you've moved your
device into "writable-mode"? (can't seem to get it to work at home)

Yes it is. Or at least no one told me otherwise and I've been doing that for some time now. Our rootfs is just a loop-mounted file, so what this does is replace that file with a pristine one (if you don't remove /userdata/.writable_image it will just be writable from first boot).

What's your issue with it? It will stay silent for long periods of time when it's downloading the image.

--
Michał (Saviq) Sawicz <michal.sawicz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Canonical Services Ltd.


Follow ups

References