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Re: system-image updates, and LP: #1277589

 

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Feb 20, 2014, at 04:11 PM, Loïc Minier wrote:
>
> >Should we build some kind of "remote recovery channel" to remotely fix
> >any screwups in the system-image updates stack?  There was a workaround
> >this time, but it could happen that we lock production users out of all
> >updates.
>
> Do you mean, like a share-my-desktop backdoor on all the phones where we
> can
> remotely run system-image-cli for them? :)
>
> Seriously though, we *really* need integration tests for the whole stack:
> qtnetworking -> udm -> si-dbus -> system-settings
>
> There are a lot of moving parts here and it's sometimes very difficult to
> figure out where the breakage is occurring.
>
>
We talk about doing all this in the emulator, it looked like a lot of work
but I think it will be very very worth it. Automating the tests of all
possible upgrade paths is.. well would be just be better than sliced bread.
We should consider making this a priority once all the other ones are gone
:)

Kr,

Manuel


> -Barry
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