SwUpd

Software Update Mechanism for Ostro™ OS

Ostro OS based software can be deployed to a target device in two ways:

Full Disk Flashing

A new software image is built and installed, completely replacing what was previously present on the device. It can be useful for initializing a device with Ostro OS. Software Update This is a component that Ostro OS borrows from Clear Linux* OS and consists of both a server and client component. The Software Update component is not tied to any specific platform or architecture, as long as the concept of rootfs/filesystem is supported.

Software Update Mechanism for Ostro™ OS

SwUpd

The SoftWare UPDater — swupd — from Clear Linux provides a new way of adding functionality to and updating a Linux-based OS. Meta layer for swupd software-update

• About software update

• How to run the updater

• ostro-image-noswupd (when building without swupd, the recommended mode for local image building)

• ostro-image-swupd (when building with swupd, the recommended mode for deployment)

Bundles

• Bundles overview

Clear Linux Bundles Overview

root@edison:~# ls /usr/share/clear/bundles
os-core    world-dev
root@edison:~#

root@edison:~# swupd
Usage:
    swupd [OPTION...]
 or swupd [OPTION...] SUBCOMMAND [OPTION...]

Help Options:
   -h, --help              Show help options

Subcommands:
   bundle-add              Install a new bundle          
   bundle-remove           Uninstall a bundle            
   hashdump                Dumps the HMAC hash of a file 
   update                  Update to latest OS version   
   verify                  Verify content for OS version 
   check-update            Checks if a new OS version is available

To view subcommand options, run `swupd SUBCOMMAND --help'
root@edison:~#

root@edison:~# swupd update
swupd-client software update 2.87
   Copyright (C) 2012-2015 Intel Corporation
   bsdiff portions Copyright Colin Percival, see COPYING file for details

Error: Network issue, unable to proceed with update
Update exiting.
root@edison:~#

root@edison:~# swupd bundle-add editors
swupd-client bundle adder 2.87
   Copyright (C) 2012-2015 Intel Corporation
   bsdiff portions Copyright Colin Percival, see COPYING file for details

Cannot load official manifest MoM for version 4400
root@edison:~#

root@edison:~# swupd check-update -u example.com/updates
root@edison:~# swupd update -u example.com/updates
root@edison:~# swupd verify -u example.com/updates