Function to freeze and unfreeze board firmware

[igorpecovnik]

This function is an example (its just copy / paste from old and does not function due to missing helper functions) what we need to implement as common functions:

• whenever we are executing apt function, we need to check if apt is not working in the back
• we need to have all board / armbian related variables like ${BOARD} ${BRANCH} ...

Here I had in mind that menu would once says "Freeze" and second time "Unfreeze". We can solve this in several ways ... also we should condition this entry even file is there.

[igorpecovnik]

#12

[schwar3kat]

Here I had in mind that menu would once says "Freeze" and second time "Unfreeze". We can solve this in several ways ... also we should condition this entry even file is there.

Yes... this is exactly the type of thing that a menu initialization function in the script could achieve. The menu could say freeze if it's not frozen (freezed) and could say unfreeze if it is frozen (freezed). The menu item visibility could also depend on the resources (files and etc) being available.

I'm not sure if my suggestions are viable or the best way to do it, but let's see if @Tearran can come up with a way to make this happen.

#26

[Tearran]

There is no traditional definition for "freeze" in this context.

Previous assumption was to explore read-only root filesystem system and read-write root filesystem.

Current assumption Hold/Unhold, u-boot and kernel updates
Apt seems to be part of all builds, Uusing apt terms "hold" "unhold".

{
    source /etc/armbian-release
    packages=("linux-image-current-$LINUXFAMILY" "linux-u-boot-$BOARD-$BRANCH" "u-boot-tools")

    for pkg in "${packages[@]}"; do
        if apt-mark showhold | grep -q "^$pkg$"; then
            sudo apt-mark unhold "$pkg"
            echo "Unheld $pkg"
        else
            sudo apt-mark hold "$pkg"
            echo "Held $pkg"
        fi
    done
}

TODO trigger event communication layer. Failed but informative attempts have been made to get the relative information and provide doc generation of said variables last attempt was armbian/build#5894

Closed previous PR. Levering for for other reasons become a distraction. Abended idea of exposing any helpful information

Exploring /share/armbian-config/configng.config key=pair for system state runtime checks.

ku_freeze=$(apt-mark showhold)

[[ -z $ku_freeze ]] && #TODO change a Variable that can be read at runtime and change by group function
#TODO determine if the build first run can be leveraged to provide a default system state configuration file. 

The group function be responsible for changes system setting and to set the current state a file was intended. The config read this file and produce a json for other purposes, primarily the gui and tui.