Bug 9790

Summary: Design a solution for using a package manager to develop and transitioning to swupd for production
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] Other YP Layers Reporter: Joshua Lock <joshuagloe>
Component: meta-swupdAssignee: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly>
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Undecided CC: richard.purdie
Version: 2.2   
Target Milestone: Future   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Don't know

Description Joshua Lock 2016-06-16 16:27:47 UTC 
User feedback strongly suggest that the swupd model doesn't work well for the early R&D stages of building a distribution and the software for it. 

During this phase it's useful to be able to install packages from a package feed without having to define bundles and build entire images. However the benefits of swupd and its transactional update for a production system are undeniable.

We should design a workflow and tools which helps design and build a distro that can use package management during development and switch to a production mode using swupd for a formal release.
Comment 1 Richard Purdie 2018-10-11 15:26:37 UTC 
Upstream swupd has changed a lot and integration with the Yocto Project would be tricky and need rework to the layer. Closing this as obsolete since any new integration would need rework and have its own issues.