System images now the recommended way to deploy and update Ubuntu Touch




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6 Responses to System images now the recommended way to deploy and update Ubuntu Touch

  1. Maximilian Schleiss says:

    IRC is so busy with important stuff that I end up asking here. The wiki for the older images stated we can change the timezone using the commands in
    Worked like a charm but not with the new RO images ubuntu-system. How is one supposed to change it now? The datetime menu does not work for the moment.
    Thank you in advance for the kind answer and best greetings from Lac Léman 😉

    • I’m afraid I don’t know the answer to that one since I only really work on the underlying plumbing layer. Sounds like a bug report against the datetime indicator would be the best way to get that resolved?

  2. Kai Mast says:

    So Ubuntu touch is not using apt/dkpg to update the images? Is there a reason for this?

  3. Daniel says:

    This is great news, but would it be ridiculous to ask why we aren’t just using a apt-get dist-upgrade equivalent?

    • Because we needed something that’d produce a perfectly reproducable result, so that all devices at the same version will be bit for bit identical.

      The system images are also usually smaller and faster to apply and as they’re applied very quickly and in a single transaction, the risk of messing up the device on upgrade is much reduced.

      APT and dpkg are obviously still used as the way to produce the image but now we just do it once for everyone and push a very compressed image of the result rather than have every single device reprocess all the packages.

      Hope that clarifies it.

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