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Re: camera-app vs. webbrowser-app autopilot dependencies

To: Thomi Richards <thomi.richards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Alexander Sack <asac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Michał Sawicz <michal.sawicz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 22:25:27 +0200
Cc: Omer Akram <omer.akram@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Andy Doan <andy.doan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ubuntu Phone <ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On 21.10.2013 21:25, Thomi Richards wrote:

1) Get an overlayFS working on the phone. Any time you want to test
something, you start the overlayFS, install your autopilot test suite +
deps, run the tests, and then kill the overlayFS afterwards. Nothing
touches the base image.

I was talking to some other folk about this recently, where I thought anoverlay (and an LXC container) would be fantastic to avoid switchingyour device to read-write mode for development, and easily switchingback to the "golden" state of a read-only device.


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Michał (Saviq) Sawicz <michal.sawicz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Canonical Services Ltd.

References

camera-app vs. webbrowser-app autopilot dependencies
From: Alexander Sack, 2013-10-21
Re: camera-app vs. webbrowser-app autopilot dependencies
From: Omer Akram, 2013-10-21
Re: camera-app vs. webbrowser-app autopilot dependencies
From: Alexander Sack, 2013-10-21
Re: camera-app vs. webbrowser-app autopilot dependencies
From: Thomi Richards, 2013-10-21