New all-snap images available

[Michael Vogt]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 08:01:38PM +0800, Kai Heng Feng wrote:
[..]
> > Building a beaglebone image is pretty trivial though so if there is
> > interesst (and if its useful for you or your team) I can just build
> > one and put the snaps into my own (.mvo) namespace.
> 
> That would be great!

I started with this and have an updated all-snap beagleboneblack
image. Unfortunately there is a kernel bug in the 4.3.0 kernel for
armhf that makes the kernel OOPS on boot on the beaglebone:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/+bug/1526027

Once that is resolved I can make the images available.

Cheers,
 Michael

> >
> > Cheers,
> >  Michael
> >
> 
> Thanks,
> Kai-Heng Feng
> 
> >
> >> Thanks,
> >> Kai-Heng Feng
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:24 PM, Michael Vogt
> >> <michael.vogt at canonical.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I'm happy to announce a new set of images for the all-snap
> >> > architecture.
> >> >
> >> > The images are available here:
> >> >
> >> >   https://people.canonical.com/~mvo/all-snaps/ [1]
> >> >
> >> > together with the matching ubuntu-device-flash based on
> >> > lp:~snappy-dev/goget-ubuntu-touch/all-snaps.
> >> >
> >> > The difference from the previous all-snap images is that the goal is
> >> > to keep them upgradable on amd64 all the way to 16.04-final.
> >> >
> >> > The highlights:
> >> > - Uses kernel/OS snaps with the final names [2]
> >> > - Uses /snaps as the base location for all installed snaps
> >> > - Uses squashfs snaps only
> >> >
> >> > The switch to squashfs only is important for us. But it does mean that
> >> > for some days the store support will be limited until the store is
> >> > updated. Until this update is rolled out you can upload either to
> >> > 15.04 or rolling. There is no support for snaps with the same name
> >> > that support both releases. As an easy workaround you can sideload to
> >> > your 16.04 image or just use a different name for the snap in the
> >> > store until the store implements support for having different snaps
> >> > for the different releases (it won't take very long).
> >> >
> >> > Existing xenial system-image based images will not receive updates
> >> > anymore but will continue to work.
> >> >
> >> > Please let us know if you notice any issues!
> >> >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> >  Michael
> >> >
> >> > [1] Hashes:
> >> > d8596380187880859fd6f390d56b854dc1cd0052e4067114dc9c195fe9a133a4 amd64-all-snap.img.xz
> >> > 5085009f88243be2a5a63e8d16003324452ccc01258aafff9807ac7e46aacc50 rpi2-all-snap.img.xz
> >> > 40931075520bf3d59c0feefd1fa7ec7eb33eb885103281cda44f2ac757df00a9 ubuntu-device-flash
> >> >
> >> > [2] The pi2 image contains an "ubuntu-core-armhf" OS snap that we will
> >> >     be renamed to ubuntu-core once the store supports that.
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