Snappy Ubuntu Core and updating on the Raspberry Pi 2

Wed Apr 29 11:21:05 UTC 2015

Hi David,

Has that always been there? If yes, I have to admit that I missed that
line, probably because I didn't read properly after reading about the "very
successful collaboration between the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Canonical"
due to which "Snappy Ubuntu Core is available for the Raspberry Pi 2". [1]

In my opinion that's a bit misleading.

Anyway, when can we expect a system-image server to be set up?

Regards,
Niklas

[1]
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/02/02/snappy-ubuntu-core-on-raspberry-pi-2/

2015-04-29 5:36 GMT+02:00 David Planella <david.planella at ubuntu.com>:

> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Niklas Wenzel <nikwen.developer at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>
> Hi Niklas,
>
> Please note that the documentation explicitly mentions that the Raspberry
> Pi 2 is not officially supported by snappy yet:
>
> https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/start/#snappy-raspi2
>
>
>> 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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