update mechanisms (was: Re: [meta-swupd][PATCH] bsdiff: update to latest version)

[Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>]

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.

Perhaps you can say a few words about your usage of swupd and what you
liked or didn't like about it? Note that performance will become better
with the upcoming update.

-- 
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly

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