Re: Graphics for indicating that a firmware update is taking place

2011-09-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:04 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Fixed it yesterday, please give it a try. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7 Interesting. My preference on this -- following earlier discussions -- would be to be able to bundle graphics in the bootfw.zip bundle, so that

Re: Graphics for indicating that a firmware update is taking place

2011-09-01 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 02:17:12PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:04 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Fixed it yesterday, please give it a try. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7 Interesting. My preference on this -- following earlier discussions --

Re: Graphics for indicating that a firmware update is taking place

2011-08-31 Thread James Cameron
Fixed it yesterday, please give it a try. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7 The graphics were designed with the following goals: 0. not do any graphics operations during the actual flashing, e.g. no progress bar, because this makes it harder to test any interactions, 1. not add another icon

Re: Firmware update - os-builder

2010-11-25 Thread Daniel Drake
On 25 November 2010 04:11, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Having os-builder required to have net access in ksmain.50.repos.py is less than ideal for remote image creation. Once the cache is downloaded could we not just run createrepo on the cache and point os-builder to the local url

Re: Firmware update - os-builder

2010-11-25 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 08:17 +, Daniel Drake wrote: On 25 November 2010 04:11, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Having os-builder required to have net access in ksmain.50.repos.py is less than ideal for remote image creation. Once the cache is downloaded could we not just run createrepo

Re: Firmware update - os-builder

2010-11-25 Thread Daniel Drake
On 25 November 2010 09:09, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Any chance of syncing koji.dist-f11-updates-10.1.2 or maybe koji.dist-f11-updates-10.1.3 to the final updates from Fedora? Probably not. It's a bit late in the game and there are disk space issues. Daniel

Re: Firmware update

2010-11-25 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On 24 November 2010 22:40, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: Is this recommendation against yum and rpm for all software, or just the oplc repo packages, the kernel and the firmware?  I'm certainly happy doing just

Re: Firmware update

2010-11-25 Thread Paul Fox
c. scott ananian wrote: At one point Michael and I also had a side-loading mechanism implemented -- if you put your target RPMs in some directory in /home/olpc -- I think it was ~/.rpms -- then they'd automatically get re-installed after olpc-update. That was (at the time) the

Re: Firmware update

2010-11-24 Thread Kevin Gordon
wondering whether this auto-firmware update feature for 'game-key-release' installs of signed builds is now a thing of the past, a figment of my iimagination, bad memory, or whether the fw in the pack is maybe still q3a48. Cheers, KG I've played around with the bootfw rpm, altering

Re: Firmware update

2010-11-24 Thread Daniel Drake
On 24 November 2010 08:26, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: I've played around with the bootfw rpm, altering the install path to reflect where /boot really is on the filesystem while booted up. This has the advantage of being able to use rpm/yum to stage the upgrade of the firmware. Providing

Re: Firmware update

2010-11-24 Thread Kevin Gordon
Is this recommendation against yum and rpm for all software, or just the oplc repo packages, the kernel and the firmware? I'm certainly happy doing just safe builds for the core. However, as part of our 'refresh' stick when we wipe and install a new signed build, we generally also include the

Re: Firmware update

2010-11-24 Thread Daniel Drake
On 24 November 2010 22:40, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: Is this recommendation against yum and rpm for all software, or just the oplc repo packages, the kernel and the firmware?  I'm certainly happy doing just safe builds for the core. To avoid all corner cases it the

Re: Firmware update

2010-11-24 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 22:25 +, Daniel Drake wrote: On 24 November 2010 08:26, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: I've played around with the bootfw rpm, altering the install path to reflect where /boot really is on the filesystem while booted up. This has the advantage of being able to

Re: Firmware update

2010-11-24 Thread Daniel Drake
On 24 November 2010 23:15, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Yes I know, I don't want this to included, it is meant to be an alternative means to update firmware on a running XO, that is it. Ah, great, no worries then. Just wanted to make sure you had an explanation. And, in general OLPC

Re: Firmware update

2010-11-24 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
There are a few other cases to consider. One is with packages that are tweaked without forking the packages. For example if you were to upgrade gstreamer you'd lose our pulseaudio tweak that makes sound work, and if you upgrade firefox you'd lose the tweak that makes it use totem for video

Re: Firmware update

2010-11-24 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 06:27:30PM -0600, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: It would be nice if such a list of tweaks existed someplace (perhaps in the wiki). That would mean Wiki documentation for code in olpc-os-builder. That would be a nice challenge; especially keeping it synchronised. In the

Re: Firmware update - os-builder

2010-11-24 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 22:49 +, Daniel Drake wrote: On 24 November 2010 22:40, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: Is this recommendation against yum and rpm for all software, or just the oplc repo packages, the kernel and the firmware? I'm certainly happy doing just safe builds

Re: Firmware update - os-builder

2010-11-24 Thread javed khan
That will be great, i was looking for something like this. On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 22:49 +, Daniel Drake wrote: On 24 November 2010 22:40, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: Is this recommendation against yum and

Firmware update

2010-11-23 Thread Kevin Gordon
dont expect it to be there using the 35x fs-update method, but I was just wondering whether this auto-firmware update feature for 'game-key-release' installs of signed builds is now a thing of the past, a figment of my iimagination, bad memory, or whether the fw in the pack is maybe still q3a48

Re: Firmware update

2010-11-23 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, And, I dont expect it to be there using the 35x fs-update method, but I was just wondering whether this auto-firmware update feature for 'game-key-release' installs of signed builds is now a thing of the past, a figment of my iimagination, bad memory, or whether the fw

Re: Firmware update

2010-11-23 Thread Kevin Gordon
Perfect, thanks. On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Hi, And, I dont expect it to be there using the 35x fs-update method, but I was just wondering whether this auto-firmware update feature for 'game-key-release' installs of signed builds is now