Re: [PATCH 00/10] Integrate swupd software updater

[Joshua G Lock <joshua.g.lock@linux.intel.com>]

On Wed, 2016-02-24 at 15:40 -0500, Philip Balister wrote:
> On 02/24/2016 02:51 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 11:35:25 Philip Balister wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 02/24/2016 11:06 AM, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Ideally the work done here and the work done on meta-
> > > > swupdate[1] would
> > > > be somehow merged so people creating images/distros would only
> > > > have to
> > > > learn and integrate one software update solution, instead of
> > > > having to
> > > > evaluate and choose between the two (or more?).
> > > > 
> > > > [1] https://github.com/sbabic/meta-swupdate
> > > Amen. I had the same thoughts reading the patch set intro.
> > I think it would be hard to integrate these two, since they operate
> > quite 
> > differently to eachother.
> >  
> > > 
> > > Maybe the swupd should go in a seperate layer so we can see which
> > > project works best for oe users before moving something directly
> > > into
> > > oe-core?
> > This makes sense to me too though FWIW. The os-release patch should
> > probably 
> > go straight in, but everything else looks like it could comfortably
> > live in a 
> > separate layer without making things too difficult.
> It also makes it easier to update as problems in swupd are resolved
> since you do not need to go through the entire oe-core testing cycle.

I've pushed the series, including a couple of metadata fixes suggested
in reply, as a layer here: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/me
ta-swupd/

Regards,

Joshua