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[Jani Monoses <jani.monoses@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

this is a heads-up and a request for feedback.

In order to ship with a more secure by default krillin [1],  adb support
will be soon turned off by in the recovery images included in the device
tarball. This will stop u-d-f from being able to flash a device, as the
files are pushed over via adb.

A new flag is being introduced to u-d-f in a pending MR [2] so that the
flashing can be done via a custom recovery image instead of the one
included in the device tarball.

We can use any locally available recovery image that is known to work and
has adb enabled (one from today's device tarball will do) and then change
the invocation of u-d-f to :

ubuntu-device-flash touch --device krillin --channel
ubuntu-touch/ubuntu-rtm/14.09-proposed --bootstrap
 --recovery-image=recovery-with-adb.img

Hopefully providing the recovery image and this change of the script will
suffice in CI being able to flash krillin devices regardless of adb status
in the shipped recovery.

Jani

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/barajas/+bug/1397023
[2]
https://code.launchpad.net/~jani/goget-ubuntu-touch/recovery-image/+merge/245724