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[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

On 17.06.2015 16:42, Sergio Schvezov wrote:
> 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.

Having the file system writable and using apt is not the same thing. I
think it's a valid developer/tester use case to temporarily turn the
file system writable, enable some additional debug output and go back to
ro. IMO this shouldn't void OTA updates.

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