looking to take some sugar-* packages
by Karsten Wade
Hey. I'm new to Sugar and OLPC packaging, but I'd like to take some
of the low(er) fruit from folks who can be better busy working on
stuff I don't understand ... such as coding. :)
Asking on #fedora-olpc, it looks like some/all of these would be a
good place to help:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OLPC/Packages_for_F11#sugar-artwork
'sugar-artwork' seems one that I can handle. Other than tracking
upstream and such, could I also help with some of the others? Such as
'sugar-toolkit'.
On the Sugar activities listed on the above page, do those packages
need maintainers as well?
cheers - Karsten
--
Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener
http://quaid.fedorapeople.org
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15 years, 3 months
Fedora Developers XO program
by David Nalley
Hi All:
During and shortly after FUDcon I began talking about ways we can
increase participation in the Fedora OLPC SIG and get more
accomplished for OLPC and Sugar.
As geeks we tend to love and drool over esoteric and fascinating
hardware and thus the XO presents itself as a nice carrot for
motivation as well as having practical benefits in the hands of people
working on the project.
The week following FUDcon I suggested to Ed and SJ that they let the
Fedora Ambassadors run the NA Developer XO program for an initial
period of 6 months for a number of reasons:
1. Now their plates are even fuller, and this appears to be way we can
help offload some of that work.
2. The Ambassadors are already in place, going to every major event
and tons of minor events recruiting contributors to Fedora
3. We've had some moderate success getting people involved with both
Fedora and OLPC/Sugar.
They decided to take me up on the offer and shipped 100 XOs to us.
I have set the initial guidelines - but those are subject to the
guidance of this SIG - you guys are already doing the work, so feel
free to give guidance or just change the page located:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_developers_XO_program
Essentially the bar I have arbitrarily set is:
1. Maintain a sugar-* package in Fedora and agree to maintain it for
two releases. Alternately maintain a package that was in OLPC4 and has
been merged.
2. Develop a Sugar activity. To keep this in focus I have adopted
GDK's 'holy list of 4th grade math lessons' as acceptable activities:
http://sugarlabs.org/go/User:Gdk/4th_Grade_Maths
3. QA - well not really - OLPC has already sent ~75 machines out a few
months back for people to do QA on - and we hope that those people
will return to help us, so we aren't actively looking for QA help, but
if someone with extensive QA experience and lots of time presents
itself we won't pass it up.
I really seek your comments and suggestions here - I have 6 months to
prove that the community can handle and succeed at this program, and
really I have a larger of goal of wanting the 'holy list' accomplished
at the end of the 6 months and thus a usable 4th grade math curriculum
available.
Thoughts?? Comments?? Flames??
15 years, 3 months
Re: mkliveinitrd bug
by Chris Ball
Hi,
> Hello, I tracked down why rawhide does not boot from nand. Details
> in this bug report:
Awesome, Marco! Thanks so much!
As Peter suggested, I should look at getting nightly builds set up soon.
Would you like to share infrastructure so that the build run spits out
SoaS images at the same as F11-XO images? If so, any preference for
whether to do it on an OLPC machine or on something like sunjammer?
- Chris.
--
Chris Ball <cjb(a)laptop.org>
15 years, 3 months
OLPC upstream status....
by Peter Robinson
OK, with the looming hopeful rebase to rawhide I thought I'd do a
quick review of where we're at in forked packages.
Awaiting review:
Mothanna-fonts.noarch 0:0.02-3.olpc3
I heard rumours there might be license issues with this:
bootfw.i386 0:q2e28-1.olpc2.unsigned
No idea but no package reviews:
cerebro.noarch 0:3.0.6-1.olpc3
ds-backup-client.noarch 0:0.8.1-1.olpc3
olpc-licenses.noarch 0:8.2.0.0-1.olpc3
olpcrd.i386 0:0.50-0
olpcsudo.noarch 0:1.4-1
olpc-update.noarch 0:2.17-1
squeak-vm.i386 0:3.10-3olpc11
Not sure if this version works with mugshot/bigboard:
hippo-canvas.i386 0:0.3.0-5.20081014svn.olpc4
hippo-canvas-python.i386 0:0.3.0-5.20081014svn.olpc4
This is upstream but someone had possible issues:
hulahop.i386 0:0.4.7-1.olpc4
Already in rawhide so no issue:
sugar-artwork.i386 0:0.83.3-1.olpc4
sugar-base.i386 0:0.83.3-1.olpc4
sugar-datastore.i386 0:0.83.2-1.olpc4
sugar.i386 0:0.83.5-1.olpc4
sugar-presence-service.noarch 0:0.83.3-1.olpc4
sugar-toolkit.i386 0:0.83.4-1.olpc4
Deprecated (I presume we need to do the dead package process). Also
gnome-python2-desktop-evince is in rawhide so do we need to obsolete
these two against them to ensure easy upgrade?:
sugar-evince.i386 0:2.24.1-1.olpc4
sugar-evince-python.i386 0:2.24.1-1.olpc4
Forks for rainbow I believe (Status?):
telepathy-gabble.i386 0:0.7.16-1.olpc4
telepathy-glib.i386 0:0.7.20-1.olpc4
telepathy-salut.i386 0:0.3.7-2.olpc4
Forked for dependancies (If we're going to ship gnome as well do the
deps now matter?):
totem-gstreamer.i386 0:2.24.3-5.olpc4
totem.i386 0:2.24.3-5.olpc4
totem-mozplugin.i386 0:2.24.3-5.olpc4
totem-pl-parser.i386 0:2.24.2-5.olpc4
Forked for deps but will go away whenever abiword 2.7/2.8 gets released:
libabiword.i386 1:2.6.5-3.olpc4
This is already in F-10/rawhide so noidea why its still around:
libertas-usb8388-firmware.noarch 2:5.110.22.p23-1.olpc3
I think the issues for this are fixed in python 2.6:
pygobject2.i386 0:2.15.4-3.olpc4.3
pygtk2.i386 0:2.13.0-2.olpc4.1
pygtk2-libglade.i386 0:2.13.0-2.olpc4.1
python.i386 0:2.5.2-1.olpc4.1
python-libs.i386 0:2.5.2-1.olpc4.1
Umm.... I think initscripts/upstart have patches due to rainbow but
generally I have no idea:
upstart.i386 0:0.3.9-19.olpc4.1
rainbow.noarch 0:0.7.27-1.olpc4
initscripts.i386 0:8.86-1.olpc4.3
kernel.i586 0:2.6.27-20090104.1.olpc.48de97f1a90c0e4
Cheers,
Peter
15 years, 3 months
Re: Fedora on XO - Lite
by Sebastian Dziallas
Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Chris Ball <cjb(a)laptop.org> wrote:
>> Sebastian's kickstart files are here:
>>
>> http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/fedora-xo
>>
>> I agree that we should use (or at least merge) them, there's a lot of
>> great work here.
>
> Thanks. I imported them as is into soas master (where soas-2, F11
> based, is built from). Sebastian, do you want to just maintain those
> there?
>
> Marco
Sorry for the late reply, I was heading to Brussels for FOSDEM over the day.
Yeah, sure :) I'll be happy to do so!
--Sebastian
15 years, 3 months
Re: Fedora on XO - Lite
by Chris Ball
Hey Marco,
> Do you have the kickstart up somewhere? I'd really like to rebase
> soas-1 on it, having a small image would be awesome for the XO. I
> suppose it's not based on fedora-live-base?
Sebastian's kickstart files are here:
http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/fedora-xo
I agree that we should use (or at least merge) them, there's a lot of
great work here.
Thanks,
- Chris.
--
Chris Ball <cjb(a)laptop.org>
15 years, 3 months
XO question
by Steven M. Parrish
Hey guys,
Since I am not a proud owner of an XO let me ask a question. When testing and
developing activities I know I can use the Sugar Spin to verify software
compatibility but is there anything out there that simulates the XO hardware
for testing purposes?
Steven
15 years, 3 months
Meeting reminder and notes from m_stone
by Greg DeKoenigsberg
Hello all. A reminder: we'll be meeting tomorrow, Thursday at 1pm Eastern
US time, #fedora-olpc, irc.freenode.net.
Some things to keep us busy:
<m_stone> gregdek: olpc-update, olpc-contents, olpcsudo,
sugar-update-control, and cerebro require python2.6 rebuilds.
<m_stone> gregdek: sugar-journal and sugar-evince-python need to be
dropped from the package manifest
<m_stone> gregdek: and we need a new subpackage of gnome-python-desktop
for the new evince-python bindings available from upstream.
<m_stone> also, telepathy-salut from olpc4 needs a rebuild against
libssl.7.
<m_stone> and all this without actually running the thing!
See you all tomorrow. :)
--g
--
Got an XO that you're not using? Loan it to a needy developer!
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15 years, 3 months
Joyide on Fedora 11/rawhide
by Peter Robinson
Hi All,
I wanted to put it to the lists and get some feedback, with the plans
on basing the 9.1.0 release on Fedora 11 I think we need to have a
testing stream based on rawhide so that we can start testing core OS
related bits and dealing with them sooner rather than later.
My thoughts are that we should setup a new stream
(joyhide/rawjoy/rawride?? ) at least initially which would give the OS
people something to test and play with while giving Activity and sugar
developers the option of either a more stable platform for developing
and/or the bleading edge. With the F-11 alpha release out in the next
couple of days rawhide should start (or maybe not) to stabilise so it
might be a good time to start. Most of the major stuff that will
affect OLPC (read python 2.6) is already in. There's a few other bits
that will come but should have minimal impact.
I'm quite happy to step up and sort out the build and poke repos and
the like if people are happy to give me access to pilgrim and
associated bits to get this moving. I have a reasonable amount of time
next week that I can dedicate to getting this moving as well so I
thought I'd poke now so as to get things moving if its decided to be a
reasonable proposal.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
Peter
15 years, 3 months
Add sugar repo for yum for SoaS
by Simon Schampijer
Hi,
the SoaS is based on F10 but contains the latest Sugar version 0.84 -
this is why we have an extra repository for the Sugar packages. To make
a yum update as well from that repository available I would like to add
it to the /etc/yum.repos.d
How would I do this best - write the file in the SoaS kickstart file? A
little bird told me about a package solution as well. Thoughts welcome.
Thanks,
Simon
15 years, 3 months