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[David Peter <maildavidpeter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ahah Gotcha

That's great

Thanks
On May 29, 2014 10:15 AM, "Oliver Grawert" <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, den 29.05.2014, 09:41 -0400 schrieb David Peter:
> > Hi
> >
> >
> > What is the difference between
> > http://system-image.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch/
> >
> > and
> > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch/
> > ?
> >
> the files on cdimage are intermediate products, they should not be used
> beyond hacking on the image itself or for porting to an unsupported
> device, these files are the input files for [1] . think about them like
> the squashfs file for the desktop isos, you would theoretically never
> grab the squashfs and directly unpack it to a device but instead boot
> the livecd and do an installation that does the unpacking and proper
> configuration for you.
> >
> > I know how to use rootsotck-touch-install with the last cdimage but on
> > wich system-image does it correspond? I am losing OTA update.
> rootstock is solely for hacking on the image and porting purposes, even
> porters should eventually provide a system-image server for their ports
> so OTA upgrades can be offered.
> >
> > Where does come from system-image? How are they build?
>
> the server on system-image.ubuntu.com pulls the files from cdimage and
> assembles them into a proper image, generates the update delta against
> the last available image for OTA and signs it  ...
> while rootstock-touch-install tries to mimic this process on your PC
> there is no guarantee that the result will be 100% identical  to an
> install you did with ubuntu-device-flash.
>
> ciao
>         oli
>
> [1]
> https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-system-image/ubuntu-system-image/server
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