How to emulate mender update

General Discussions
1

I am debugging state-scripts and it is slow job. At the moment I have to do full update and it takes time. What should be written and where so the mender at boot time would think that system was upgraded.

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AP Sihvonen

2

Hm, I do not know if there way to trick the Mender client unless you deploy an Artifact.

One solution would to create a dummy artifact e.g based on script Update Module. Note though if you want it to reboot when you deploy this you must modify the Update Module to include,

    NeedsArtifactReboot)
        echo "Yes"
        ;;