On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 12:06:53 +0330, Hedayat Vatankhah hedayatv@gmail.com wrote:

<p>According to [1], the Roborics Spin failed to compose. I wonder
  if we can know the logs and fix the problem. Can anybody provide
  some info about it and how to fix that? Since we are approved as
  an official spin it would be nice if we can really make it ready.
  Sorry that I was not active since I'm going to defend my thesis
  very soon.</p>

Nightly composes of the robotics spin are not being done. You can look at why the last one failed and that is probably the same issue release engineering is seeing. http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 5:41 AM, Hedayat Vatankhah hedayatv@gmail.comwrote:

*Bruno Wolff III bruno@wolff.to bruno@wolff.to* wrote on Sat, 29 Oct 2011 04:14:16 -0500:

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 12:06:53 +0330, Hedayat Vatankhah hedayatv@gmail.com hedayatv@gmail.com wrote:

 <p>According to [1], the Roborics Spin failed to compose. I wonder
  if we can know the logs and fix the problem. Can anybody provide
  some info about it and how to fix that? Since we are approved as
  an official spin it would be nice if we can really make it ready.
  Sorry that I was not active since I'm going to defend my thesis
  very soon.</p>

Nightly composes of the robotics spin are not being done. You can look at why the last one failed and that is probably the same issue release engineering is seeing.http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/

Thanks a lot. Yes, I found the error:

Error creating Live CD : Failed to build transaction : player-3.0.2-13.fc16.i686 requires libgeos-3.3.0.so

Apparently, it is fixed in player-3.0.2-14.fc16 which is in updates-testing repo. Can we do anything to use it for building the robotics spin?

Thanks again, Hedayat

I got the Player update pushed through as an NTH bug, it's in stable now. I'll have a look at the spin tonight and see if I can't get a working compose.

Rich

On 11/02/2011 05:57 PM, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote:

Hi Rich,

As of RC2, the update is pushed and Robotics Spin is being built. It would be nice if you can try it to see if it has any apparent problems:

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/16.RC4/Spins/x86_64/

Thanks,

Hedayat

Awesome. I gave it a try with qemu-kvm, it boots and runs fine, minus the gnome-shell experience. I couldn't find the "install to hard drive" icon anywhere in fallback mode, is there a separate package that needs to be installed for that?

A few things: - I was looking over the kickstart, it looks like there's some utilities like telnet and minicom that were removed in the .ks we based the robotics .ks off of, but would probably be pretty helpful to roboticists. I know I use gtkterm and minicom a lot to talk to sensors, and I can see telnet being helpful. I will add these back; any other suggestions?

- Fawkes currently has some broken deps, so it's commented out of the ks for now. Once f16 is released, we can add it back.

- Should we try to get a page on spins.fedoraproject.org before the release next week? We already have some artwork from the design team, and the Robotics Suite page on the wiki is probably a good starting point for the spins page content. I think we need to make a ticket at [1] with the artwork and content to get that done.

Rich

[1] https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-websites/

On 11/02/2011 07:56 PM, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote:

Hi Rich,

already there and you should just enabled it, but I might be wrong.

I thought so too. I'll put the spin on a USB stick tonight and boot into it so I can grab some screenshots and make sure the install to disk option is there.

I don't know if they are already included, but libraries for firewire access (libraw1394 and libdc1394) and libftdi are helpful. But they might be already pulled in as mrpt dependencies. And... have we included -devel packages in the spin? I'm not sure but maybe some or most of them should be included. For example, while MRPT provides some applications but its library provides lots of functionality so probably mrpt-devel package should be included inside the live version while it is marked as optional in comps. It is very likely that it is applicable to other packages too.

I know that Player uses both of the firewire libs; mrpt does as well. The .ks explicity lists stage-devel, player-devel, and mrpt-devel, so all of that stuff will be pulled in. It's also pulling in Eclipse for c/c++ development, arduino for microcontroller development, etc.

It'd be great. The robotics spin is now an official spin and it is much better if it has its own page as a product rather than wiki pages.

Alright, I'm in the process of filing a ticket. You and timn are cc'd. Are we happy with the artwork the design team has come up with for us? I like the design, but should we change the "The best tools for the best robotics" moniker? I think it's probably something we can change later if we are concerned with getting the spin site up fast.

Rich