Re: [Devil-linux-develop] remote update

[Friedrich L. <fl...@fl...>]

Heiko Zuerker wrote on 09.02.2004 02:20 MET:
> Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
> 
>> It has to be done in the initrd anyway and you are not changing those 
>> libraries when doing the update. And yes this might be a problem of 
>> its own, we can not change the initrd anymore. Hmmmmm.....then initrd 
>> needs some fixed parts (does not change across stable version) which 
>> loads the varibale ones, taking into account to update those if an 
>> "update CD" exists. Then the rest of the system is updated. Now this 
>> might also be a good idea to include the update script _from_ CD. This 
>> way we can provide for a more complicated if we did not think about a 
>> specific update problem later and as this script is tamper proof (on 
>> CD!) it can check all the signatures against a provided signature file 
>> (is that really needed?).
> 
> 
> Since all update functions are on the CD anyway (pre_init script), the 
> existance of this script would be the only requirement.
> 
> This would be the procedure:
> 1. initrd loads
> 2. initrd replaces bootcd.iso with bootcd.iso.new (after verifying it)
> 3. initrd continues as usual
> 4. pre_init sees the CD version is different to the config version and 
> performs an update (interactive part already implemented).

What do you do if initrd has to be updated?

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Friedrich Lobenstock
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Friedrich Lobenstock                       Linux Services Lobenstock
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