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Yeah that’s true. But if these are embedded devices, you probably want an A/B partition scheme with full transactional updates and rollback.



I once built a Yocto system that had both... We'd use our package index for quick hotfixes, and push a full OS image to the A/B partition for larger, riskier changes. It was nice to have options.


That’s neat!




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