[Starlingx-discuss] How to update an installed image

[Victor Rodriguez]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 10:05 AM Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com> wrote:
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> On 4/24/19 5:50 AM, Wensley, Barton wrote:
> > Victor,
> >
> > StarlingX has two mechanisms for updating software on a running system:
> > - updates (also known as patching): This allows the user to build an updated version of a set of RPMs, bundle them into a patch file and apply them to a running system. We are also working on an update mechanism for containerized applications, which will allow new versions the docker images for an application to be deployed to a running system.
> Is this process being used to build patches between the daily/weekly
> builds? Can we even patch between these?  If I understand this uses the
> "smart" package manager, or is that for the upgrade process?
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> I understand that there is not yet a process for updating the
> containers, is there a specification being worked on for describing how
> the containerized applications will be updated?
>
> Sau!
> > - upgrades: This allows the user to upgrade a running system from one StarlingX release to the next, including the OS, RPMs and applications. This mechanism will only be supported when moving between StarlingX releases - any fixes delivered to an existing release will use the update mechanism.
> >
> > The update mechanism would be used to deliver a CVE fix (as per your example) to a running system.
> >
> > Bart
> >

Thanks a lot, Bart, following Saul question, is there any place where
I can get documentation about it.

The actual problem that I have is that I have a dedicated HW for
measuring the footprint of the STX image ( described in the
performance presentation I gave 2 weeks ago ) but I really don't want
to reinstall the ISO every time there is a new ISO released in CEGN
that I have to measure and send the results to my personal DB to track
any degradation. Curtis and I have the AR to make it work on packet
infra , Curtis has been working very hard to make the packet infra, I
am in charge fo the test suite. But I had the roadblock of asking
myself, do I have to reinstall the ISO every time. I am glad that you
clarify me that point that there is a way, now if you can point to
more documentation about it I can use to unblock my AR

Thanks a lot

Victor Rodriguez

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Victor Rodriguez [mailto:vm.rod25 at gmail.com]
> > Sent: April 23, 2019 7:02 PM
> > To: starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io; Thebeau, Michel
> > Subject: Re: [Starlingx-discuss] How to update an installed image
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Based on recommendations from Michael I am going to rewrite my question:
> >
> > I have a server, all in one with STX simplex configuration but I
> > installed the ISO like a month ago, now I want to get the latest
> > version of STX
> >
> > I think this a really important part of the project. I don't see
> > myself as sysadmin with a new CVE fixed in the latest version of
> > starling x and have to reinstall the full iso in all my nodes. I was
> > pretty sure we had this component like starling x update.
> >
> > Any feedback more than welcome, if this is already a project under
> > development is perfect if not, we might spend some time discussing it
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Victor Rodriguez
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Something like preupg or update-manager in the case of Centos and Ubuntu
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 9:11 AM Victor Rodriguez <vm.rod25 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi team
> >>
> >> I would like to know more about the image update mechanism we have in
> >> starting X. I have a simplex system installed and I want to keep my
> >> system updated with the latest version released in
> >> http://mirror.starlingx.cengn.ca/mirror/ but I don't want to reinstall
> >> the full ISO again every week. Is there any way to do a sw update in
> >> the starling x system so I keep my infrastructure updated w/o having
> >> to reinstall the ISO?
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> >> Victor Rodriguez
> >
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