Updating a gadget snap

Jamie Bennett jamie.bennett at canonical.com
Wed Mar 8 10:06:05 UTC 2017


Hi Renat,

We are working on making parts of the gadget snap updatable for example, on
RPi, updating config.txt makes sense, but as you say this is a dangerous
area to be playing with as bricking the device is possible. Michael knows
more as he has be directly working on this lately.

Regards,
Jamie.

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Ренат Галимов <renat2017 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, everyone.
>
> We need a way to make "snap.yaml," hooks and, possibly, other stuff of our
> gadget snap updateable.
>
> The only way now I see is to provide a hook, which will download or get
> files from the filesystem and replace files on the image by them, but such
> a solution seem dangerous to me, because of the violation of the snaps
> rollback idea.
>
> Is there anything related to the gadget snaps update planned, or, maybe,
> somebody already resolved the issue?
>
>
> Thank you,
> Renat
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