[yocto] update mechanisms

[Stefano Babic]

Hi Patrick,

On 30/11/2016 15:59, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 14:31 +0000, André Draszik wrote:
>> On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 12:04 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2016-11-21 at 12:03 +0000, André Draszik wrote:
>>>> This allows us to completely remove the build time
>>>> depenency on libcheck when not needed, reducing
>>>> overall build time, and in addition tests can be
>>>> converted into a PACKAGECONFIG to enable them if
>>>> needed.
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> Sorry for the delay, I had to check with Joshua first who's going to
>>> merge your patches. I'm currently working on a major update of
>>> meta-swupd (see https://github.com/ostroproject/ostro-os/pull/198) and
>>> if there's enough interest for using it as part of Yocto, might continue
>>> maintaining it.
>>
>> Thanks Patrick. Are you saying you would otherwise abandon meta-swupd
>> completely, or have it be a part of ostro-os only?
> 
> That's undecided. We are currently trying to figure out which update
> mechanism is a good fit for Yocto. Depending on the outcome of that and
> available resources, we may or may not have the time to support
> something.
> 
> I've started a Wiki page
> https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/System_Update - rudimentary at the
> moment, but might as well be mentioned already now.

I have seen Mariano added an entry for SWUpdate, too, thanks  - I would
like to edit for better explanation on some parts. Should I try to edit
directly the page or is it better to discuss it here ?

Regards,
Stefano

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