Updating a gadget snap

[Ренат Галимов]

Hi,

Also, forgot to mention that also we need a way to update the raspberry pi
firmware files.
Updating those files may cause the node to fail to boot.
A/B system for those files is also necessary, in my opinion.

Thanks,
Renat

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 7:38 PM, knitzsche <kyle.nitzsche at canonical.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there a description/understanding of to expect with a time frame?
>
> This information would help Renat and others who want to be sure that
> products made today have an upgrade path in the field.
>
> Cheers,
> kyleN
>
>
> On 03/08/2017 05:54 AM, Ренат Галимов wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Jamie.
>>
>> The reason we need this feature is to deliver a product to out customers
>> as
>> soon as possible
>> and then apply changes made in the rpi3 gadget snap as they become ready.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Renat
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Jamie Bennett <
>> jamie.bennett at canonical.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 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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