This is becoming an issue again. Most phones are made in China, which is a place with notoriously poor networks. From my experience, many hardware manufacturers in other parts of the world choose to live with similarly restrictive internal networks (!).
As such ubuntu-device-flash has recently grown the ability to flash the device tarball they produce from a local file (--device-tarball). We have found that suggesting they stand up a server like janimo's above is tricky - they need to negotiate such things with IS departments. Until they can go public with their device, they therefore write scripts to scrape rootfs release from system-image.ubuntu.com, and then use other tools to flash these to their device. It would be helpful if we could all use ubuntu device flash. That needs two features: - the ability to --download-only a release to the local filesystem, to remove the need to write json scraping scripts that are unique to each OEM (this bug) - the ability for u-d-f to flash from the local cache, or documentation on how to copy files into the local cache so that u-d-f can refer to internal file resources, and not download rootfs tarballs from the network all the time. (separate bug) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1295148 Title: support --download-only option To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/goget-ubuntu-touch/+bug/1295148/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
