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[Sergio Schvezov <sergio.schvezov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 02:05:17PM +0200, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak wrote:
> First of all, generally it's not really a good idea to mix apt-get
> upgrades with OTA upgrades. The whole philosophy of OTA updates is that
> the core-components of the system are read-only and only updated by
> system-image during OTA. If you modify packages as in a normal Ubuntu
> system, well, there's no guarantee things will work after upgrading.

Can't we block system image updates from happening if .writable-paths is
set? Or maybe a less happy path of forcing full updates instead of deltas,
breaking the user's mods but not the system.