[Starlingx-discuss] FW: Sanity Test - ISO 20181211

[Victor Rodriguez]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 11:35 AM Cordoba Malibran, Erich
<erich.cordoba.malibran at intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2018-12-13 at 11:13 -0600, Dean Troyer wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 8:02 AM Cesar Lara <cesarlarag at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Not entirely true, StarlingX has an update service so you can
> > > upgrade your deployment at any given time, I suggest you follow the
> > > stx-update project to get an idea of how that works.
> >
> > I do not think that the process of creating update/upgrade packages
> > is
> > documented publicly yet.  This service uses specifically built files
> > for this purpose, it does not use a later ISO build.
> >
> > >  If you have a deployment based on the latest stable release you
> > > are good to go. These daily builds are getting patches and code for
> > > features that are not ready for production nor fully tested until
> > > the next release cycle. We are basically fixing bugs being
> > > introduced as part of the normal development process.
> >
> > As I understand the process, updates to the internal package repo
> > need
> > to be loaded onto the controller, then those updates can be schedules
> > out to the various nodes.  It is the creation of those updates that I
> > think we are missing here.  I am not aware of a documented way to
> > take
> > a later ISO and apply that directly to achieve the same result.
> >
>
> We don't have a way to provide updates for the people that already
> installed a StarlingX instance.

Then i had this idea wrong, i had the strong belive we had stx-update
for this reason

Can someone help me to point about external documentation for stx-update?

I would recommend to use the r/2018.10
> ISO, the master branch is on heavy development and prone to bugs.
>
> However, if we want to fix it, I think we need to :
>
> 1) Provide the packages with updates: we should pay special attention
> into versioning of every package.

Don't we provide a list of rpm's on every new build?

> 2) Find a way to install the updates and download them to be served
> into the additional controllers and computes. (not sure if this is what
> stx-update does)

Me neither , i think we might need a good education mail about what
does stx-update does

>
>
>
> > I would love to be wrong about that...
> >
> > dt
> >
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