File Version for SDI files

[Rob White]

Hi,

I have an image which is steadily being updated, to keep the versions
trackable I've been using the device serial setting in target designer.
This works fine for terminals that have an image installed, but what
about when the OS in question is a stored in an sdi file?

Is there a way that I can tag the sdi file with a version attribute, in
much the same way as I can with any code that I write? Installing an
sdi file, just to find out what version it is seems to be the wrong way
around.

Thanks for any help,

Rob

 

[Guest]

Instead of using the device serial number to track the revisions of the XPe
image, you can use the "Runtime OEM revision" field in Target Designer; for
example incrementing it by one each time you do an update to the image.

For sdi files, you can update the same field above in the header of the sdi
file using a command like the following:

sdimgr "c:\MyXPeImage.sdi" /runtimeoemrev:1

If you have an sdi file and don't know what Runtime OEM Revision value it
has, just run the sdimgr command on it without any switches to just display
the sdi header:

sdimgr "c:\MyXPeImage.sdi"

There are many settings under "Deployment Identification Settings" in
Target Designer than an OEM can use to uniquely identify an image and/or
what type/model of devices it's designed to run on. The OEM can choose
whatever setting suits them. I suggested "Runtime OEM revision" because it
sounds closer to what you're looking for and it can be easily updated in an
sdi file using the sdimgr tool.

Hope this help

KS


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