Updating a gadget snap

knitzsche kyle.nitzsche at canonical.com
Thu Mar 9 16:38:54 UTC 2017


Hi,

Is there a description/understanding of to expect with a time frame?

This information would help Renat and others who want to be sure that 
products made today have an upgrade path in the field.

Cheers,
kyleN

On 03/08/2017 05:54 AM, Ренат Галимов wrote:
> Thanks, Jamie.
>
> The reason we need this feature is to deliver a product to out customers as
> soon as possible
> and then apply changes made in the rpi3 gadget snap as they become ready.
>
> Best regards,
> Renat
>
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Jamie Bennett <jamie.bennett at canonical.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Renat,
>>
>> We are working on making parts of the gadget snap updatable for example, on
>> RPi, updating config.txt makes sense, but as you say this is a dangerous
>> area to be playing with as bricking the device is possible. Michael knows
>> more as he has be directly working on this lately.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jamie.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Ренат Галимов <renat2017 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, everyone.
>>>
>>> We need a way to make "snap.yaml," hooks and, possibly, other stuff of
>> our
>>> gadget snap updateable.
>>>
>>> The only way now I see is to provide a hook, which will download or get
>>> files from the filesystem and replace files on the image by them, but
>> such
>>> a solution seem dangerous to me, because of the violation of the snaps
>>> rollback idea.
>>>
>>> Is there anything related to the gadget snaps update planned, or, maybe,
>>> somebody already resolved the issue?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Renat
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