Re: [RAUC] mark-active

["Ulrich Ölmann" <u.oelmann@pengutronix.de>]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 10:55:18AM +0000, Middelschulte, Leif wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 05.12.2017, 10:14 +0100 schrieb Ulrich Ölmann:
> > On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 08:01:11AM +0000, Middelschulte, Leif wrote:
> > > I was wondering about the intention of `mark-active [booted]`. Maybe I'm
> > > misinterpreting the docs[0] though.
> > > 
> > > So here is the paragraph in question:
> > > "Last but not least, after switching to a different slot by mistake, this can
> > > be remedied by choosing booted as the argument which is, by the way, the
> > > default if the optional argument has been omitted."
> > > 
> > > To me this appears missleading, as it reads like:
> > > "You (unintentionally) managed to boot the wrong slot and want to go back? Use
> > >  `rauc status mark-active booted`!"
> > > 
> > > But instead it will mark the currently (unintentionally booted) slot as the
> > > permanent primary [1], won't it?
> > > 
> > > Maybe I'm just missing something here though.
> > 
> > you are right, the documentation leaves enough room to interpret it like you
> > did. What I intended to say was that one can utilize the shortcut "booted" to
> > revoke an erroneous modification of the bootloader's state if one recognizes it
> > early enough and the system has not yet been shut down already. Hence the docs
> > should be updated to read
> > 
> >   "Last but not least, after switching to a different slot by mistake, before
> >   having rebooted this can be remedied by choosing booted as the argument which
> >   is, by the way, the default if the optional argument has been omitted."
> > 
> > This should be precise enough to put away the ambiguity that you stumbled over.
> > Do you agree?
> Sounds good to me.

Created a corresponding pull request, see [1].

Best regards
Ulrich


[1] https://github.com/rauc/rauc/pull/194
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