Snappy Ubuntu Core and updating on the Raspberry Pi 2

Tue Apr 28 12:08:55 UTC 2015

Hi Loïc,

Thank you for your reply.

Given that the Raspberry Pi 2 is presented as one of the officially 
supported platforms in the documentation [1], what is currently keeping 
Canonical from adding the Raspberry Pi 2 builds to their already 
existing image server?
I recently went ahead and bought one just to try Snappy Ubuntu Core on 
it and it's quite frustrating that you have to set up an image server 
yourself in order to be able to upgrade your installation, which I 
consider to be part of the basic functionality of any OS, especially on 
a supported platform.

When can we expect the official image server to be launched?

Cheers,
Niklas

[1] https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/

Am Di, 28. Apr, 2015 um 10:58 schrieb Loïc Minier 
<loic.minier at ubuntu.com>:
> The immediate best short term approach is to run your own 
> system-image server to host RPi2 device tarballs and point your 
> device at that server.
> 
> System-image installation, configuration and generally operation is 
> described in wiki pages starting at:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ImageBasedUpgrades
> 
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Niklas Wenzel 
> <nikwen.developer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Any update? It's almost been a week again. ;)
>> 
>> 
>> Am Di, 21. Apr, 2015 um 5:49 schrieb Niklas Wenzel 
>> <nikwen.developer at gmail.com>:
>>> Hi John,
>>> 
>>> Thanks for replying. In that case I'll happily wait for the answer.
>>> You know, one always forgets about the release as soon as it is 
>>> running on his own PC already.
>>> 
>>> Btw, I've got the wifi issue sorted out by using the config file 
>>> from [1] in connection with the method from [2]. As this requires 
>>> modifying the read-only parts, this is still no satisfying solution 
>>> but it works for now.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Niklas
>>> 
>>> [1] 
>>> http://www.dafinga.net/2013/01/how-to-setup-raspberry-pi-with-hidden.html
>>> [2] 
>>> http://www.marinus.nu/2015/02/enabling-wifi-on-snappy-ubuntu-core.html
>>> 
>>> Am Di, 21. Apr, 2015 um 5:26 schrieb John Lenton 
>>> <john.lenton at canonical.com>:
>>>> I don't know the answer, but I know that at least one person who 
>>>> knows
>>>> the answer has seen your email and will be in touch as soon as they
>>>> are humanly able to do so.
>>>> 
>>>> It's release week, chaps.
>>>> 
>>>> Keep up the good work.
>>>> 
>>>> On 21 April 2015 at 15:27, Niklas Wenzel 
>>>> <nikwen.developer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>  Thank you for your reply. :)
>>>>> 
>>>>>  I tried that a few hours ago but I couldn't get it to work with 
>>>>> my wifi
>>>>>  network since its SSID is hidden.
>>>>>  I'll try some other tutorials on that later (e.g. [1]), but I'd 
>>>>> rather not
>>>>>  want to mess up with the read-only parts of the system as that 
>>>>> may cause
>>>>>  issues while upgrading later.
>>>>> 
>>>>>  Is there any possiblity to get these debs included into the 
>>>>> official images?
>>>>> 
>>>>>  Cheers,
>>>>>  Niklas
>>>>> 
>>>>>  [1]
>>>>>  
>>>>> http://www.dafinga.net/2013/01/how-to-setup-raspberry-pi-with-hidden.html
>>>>> 
>>>>>  Am Di, 21. Apr, 2015 um 4:15 schrieb Gábor Paller 
>>>>> <gaborpaller at gmail.com>:
>>>>> 
>>>>>  Does this help?
>>>>>  
>>>>> http://www.marinus.nu/2015/02/enabling-wifi-on-snappy-ubuntu-core.html
>>>>> 
>>>>>  I have no experience on Raspberry but I use the method in this 
>>>>> blog post all
>>>>>  the time on BeagleBone Black.
>>>>> 
>>>>>  Regards,
>>>>>  Gabor
>>>>> 
>>>>>  On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Niklas Wenzel 
>>>>> <nikwen.developer at gmail.com>
>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  No reply yet?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  In addition to what I wrote in my last email, I'm struggling 
>>>>>> getting wifi
>>>>>>  to work on my Raspberry Pi 2. Does anyone have any advice here? 
>>>>>> [1]
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy-ubuntu/+bug/1446664
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  2015-04-17 20:44 GMT+02:00 Niklas Wenzel 
>>>>>> <nikwen.developer at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  Hi all,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  I've been a long-time user of Ubuntu on my desktop and on my 
>>>>>>> Nexus 4.
>>>>>>>  Recently, I've ordered a Raspberry Pi 2 for trying Snappy 
>>>>>>> Ubuntu Core on
>>>>>>>  it.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  Today, I found out on developer.ubuntu.com that the "snappy 
>>>>>>> update"
>>>>>>>  command does not yet work on the Raspberry Pi 2 due to the 
>>>>>>> lack of a
>>>>>>>  system-image server. [1]
>>>>>>>  I also found a bug report regarding this issue. [2]
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  Since I consider the easy system upgrade mechanism to be one 
>>>>>>> of the
>>>>>>>  coolest features of Snappy Ubuntu Core, my question now is how 
>>>>>>> long it will
>>>>>>>  take until that server is set up. Is anyone currently looking 
>>>>>>> into that?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  Thank you very much in advance.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  Cheers,
>>>>>>>  Niklas
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  [1] http://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/start/
>>>>>>>  [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy-ubuntu/+bug/1429749
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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