Snappy update behavior after rollback

[Martin Albisetti]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Manik Taneja <manik at canonical.com> wrote:
> On my snappy kvm image, I was using the stable channel with ubuntu-core v9
> and noticed that an update to v10 was available. The system failed the
> update and as designed rolled back to v9 automatically. However, after the
> system recovered at v9, the auto-update (aka autopilot) continued to update
> the system at top of the hour each hour, and kept failing continuously. If
> this state is reached, we should have built in logic to make sure that we
> don't keep updating the system after a failed update or # of re-tries, which
> can be over-ridden by the user (as needed).

In general, this is probably where health checks will come in. It'll
mark a specific version as "faulty" and skip that version in future
updates.


-- 
Martin