Developing and Deploying devices

[Dirk Hohndel]

> On Apr 12, 2016, at 4:53 AM, Martin Gysel <me at bearsh.org> wrote:
>> The other thing is deployment. Initially, that’s simple, we provide disk
>> images. But then, what is the upgrade path? Connect to wifi and do git
>> pull? apt-get upgrade/update? Get a new disk image? That needs to be
>> thought about as well for devices like this.
> 
> I think it depends on the used base. if it's a debian based system (and
> I would start with such a system), then providing a apt-get urls seems
> to be the easiest solution. if using a leaner base (e.g. to reduce
> startup time as much as possible) then flashing a whole image and/or
> replace changed files (using a script or so) may be the best way.

Martin, I love your optimism. And I can tell that you are not part of the people
here who try to support our end users. I recommend that you go through our
user forum and our FB page and look at the questions we are getting.

No, this cannot be based on apt-get URLs.

/D