Help creating a spin
by Jonathan Roberts
Hi all,
I'm working as an intern with the Open Rights Group this summer, and my
personal project for the next six weeks is to create a spin of Fedora
that is going to be bundled with lots of free content, promoting the
importance of the public domain and a vibrant commons, and then sent out
to MPs (members of parliament).
Kanarip said if I stopped by here people would be able to help me out
with the spin side of it? I think we're going to use the standard Fedora
live disc as our basis, and then we want to add symlinks on the desktop
to the media folders that will be kept on the root of the disc. As well
as this we're going to want to autostart Firefox and have it open up a
copy of a local web page that will help to provide context to the
content, as well as navigation.
What do you guys think, will you be able to help out? Even a few links
pointing me in the right direction will be a huge help as it's a big
project even without the live cd.
Thanks!
Jon
14 years, 9 months
Re: [Fedora-spins] rpmfusion based spin
by Jeroen van Meeuwen
CC'ing the Fedora Spins SIG mailing list as this concerns most of the
subscribers there as well.
KH KH wrote:
> 2008/8/26 Rahul Sundaram <metherid(a)gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been keep a tab on rpmfusion progress by reading the archives and it
>> seems the repository is getting reading for launch soon. Congrats on that.
>>
>> My primary interest here at the moment is creating a spin based on rpmfusion
>> and Fedora which Thorsten Leemhuis mentioned as desirable in one of his
>> earlier mails to this list.
> I don't know if Thorsten ever mention such "spin" but having both
> rpmfusion and fedora on the same media is a very hard legal issue.
> Actually that's even not possible at all without removing the name
> Fedora from such spin. (meaning removing artworks and some others
> packages i don't remember).
FWIW, if RPMFusion wishes to provide and distribute their own version of
Fedora, including whatever packages not in Fedora, either Free or free
or not free at all, right now this is enough:
%packages
# Remove the fedora-logos package and include something without
# Fedora trademarked material
-fedora-logos
generic-logos (or: rpmfusion-logos if you have the artwork)
# Include rpmfusion-release as well
rpmfusion-release
%end
%post
# Substitute the Fedora name in /etc/fedora-release and /etc/issue,
# which are both owned by package fedora-release, so that it doesn't
# pop up in all kinds of weird places such as when booting the machine
# ("Welcome to .... Press I to start interactive ..." comes to mind).
# Note that _all_ trademarks are supposed to be in fedora-logos.
sed -i -e 's/Fedora/RPMFusion/g' /etc/fedora-release /etc/issue
%end
And you're done.
> To be more accurate: You can do such spins for yourself (either with
> free only or with nonfree packages), but you cannot redistribute the
> spin telling it is Fedora. (because it won't be fedora anymore). But
> you can (have to ?) tell this work is based (derived?) on Fedora.
>
This (being able to say "based on Fedora") is pending the new trademark
policy at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields/NewTrademarkGuidelines
I hope this clarifies some of the issues wrt. a RPMFusion spin.
Kind regards,
Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip
14 years, 9 months
Privacy Spin
by Jonathan Roberts
Hey,
Is anyone interested in putting together a Fedora spin that comes with
Tor + Privoxy fully preconfigured and turned on for all the internet
apps that can use it in a default Fedora spin?
Been doing some reading on this as part of my internship, and I think it
would be a cool addition to our list of spins. Will happily do the leg
work myself on it but I probably won't get the time to do it until
September, so maybe I'll see about doing it at FUDCon if anyone was
interested in joining me. Can't imagine it would take *that* long.
Best wishes,
Jon
14 years, 9 months
[Fwd: [Fwd: Re: Appliance Operating System (AOS) REVIEW - NEEDINFO]]
by Bryan Kearney
Forwarding from David huff, who is having posting permissions fun.
-- bk
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Fedora-spins] Appliance Operating System (AOS)
REVIEW - NEEDINFO]
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:52:46 -0400
From: David Huff <dhuff(a)redhat.com>
To: Bryan Kearney <bkearney(a)redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Fedora-spins] Appliance Operating System (AOS) REVIEW -
NEEDINFO
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:20:27 -0400
From: David Huff <dhuff(a)redhat.com>
To: Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip(a)kanarip.com>
CC: The Spin Special Interest Group mailing list
<fedora-spins(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
References: <48A172BD.9060109(a)redhat.com> <48A369CB.7060002(a)kanarip.com>
<48A4200E.9010907(a)redhat.com> <48A4319A.4070003(a)kanarip.com>
Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>>>
>>> == Kickstart ==
>>>
>>> First of all, since this is a unique spin concept in that it has a
>>> specific goal, these notes and corresponding feedback needs to be
>>> taken into account by the Spin SIG as well as the spin maintainers...
>>>
>>> 1) SELinux on this spin is disabled. Although understandable, we
>>> would like to see if SELinux could be enabled, or hear about why it
>>> is disabled entirely (rather then set permissive). SELinux is a major
>>> major feature in Fedora as well as RHEL, so we would like to preserve
>>> SELinux as a feature on all spins.
>>
>> There is an issue with the appliance-tools and selinux. I will need to
>> defer to David Huff on this and have him respond in a separate message.
>>
>
> The existing issue is that if livecd-tools and so also probably
> appliance-tools is run on a box with SELinux in enforcing mode, inside
> the chroot the right context cannot be set. Spins are therefor composed
> on hosts with SELinux set to permissive mode.
This is exactly the case. Also in order to cut down on size we have
removed a lot of the selinux packages in the kickstart file, which im
not really sure how much size that saves. I agree that it would be nice
to have selinux enable by default which would require building the image
on a box that has selinux enabled. However the sad reality is that most
isvs and/or 3rd party software run with selinux disabled. However I do
not have a problem with enabling selinux by default.
>
>>> 2) A root password is set, which is understandable for real live
>>> systems but is not conform the other spin concepts where an
>>> additional, normal user is created and the root password is removed.
>>> If there is a motivation for setting a root password and not creating
>>> a (regular) user in this spin concept, please let us know.
>>
>> This spin is really seen as a base upon which someone would "build" an
>> appliance. As appliances tend to be locked down in most cases, the
>> root user is probably the only user who would log into the machine.
>> Anyone building upon this would probably want to remove the user.
>>
>
> True as far as the custom user is concerned, however a default password
> for the root user is worse then no password, given that remote access is
> prevented when not having a password, while allowed when knowing the
> default password. Although this spin does not contain nor start sshd, I
> can only assume that is the first thing some people will want to add.
> Additionally, it has been proven a pain in the *ss to communicate a
> default password alongside a spin.
I am fine with take off the rootpw. I think the only reason we set it
is b.c we had issues with building an image without one. However form
your above statements it looks like the appropriate work around is to
remove the root pw in the post section as well as creating a normal user.
>
>>>
>>> 3) the partitioning configuration has --ondisk sda as well as
>>> --fstype ext3 which is not taken into account with creating a live spin.
>>
>> The appliance-tools do take these into acocunt, and utilize them to
>> set up the partitioning on disk.
>>
>
> Noted, and maybe worth a little comment entry in the kickstart - it
> doesn't really apply to this particular spin that we would be releasing
> via the Fedora Project, but it does apply for people wanting to continue
> and build upon this spin (and use this kickstart).
sounds good
>
>>> 5) the kickstart removes fedora-logos, but does not add another logos
>>> package, resulting in that fedora-logos still ends up on the image. A
>>> minor problem for when the spin is approved by the Board for
>>> trademark usage, but you may want to add "generic-logos" to the
>>> manifest for now.
>>
>> I have added in generic logos. Once the new tradmark policy is put
>> into place, I would like to add the secondary marks to this kickstart
>> file.
>>
>
> Yes, after trademark approval by the board, you are allowed to kick back
> in the fedora-logos package as well.
agreed
>
>> Thanks again. Updated kickstart file is attached.
>>
>
> Thanks for the quick response.
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14 years, 9 months
Developer and Electronic-Lab Spins
by Jeroen van Meeuwen
Guys,
you are lacking Feature Pages, and are therefore not yet approved by
Release Engineering to be composed for the Beta.
Create your feature pages and drop a note on both the fedora-spins
mailing list, as well as the fedora-advisory-board for trademark
approval, after which you can continue to move to the rel-eng mailing
list at lists.fedoraproject.org to get your final approval.
Most appropriate would be to do so in advance of the Beta Feature
Freeze, coming up August 19th.
Kind regards,
Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip
14 years, 9 months
Approved Spins for F10 Beta and branching off the spin-kickstarts repo
by Jeroen van Meeuwen
Although also the feature freeze, these are the spins approved for
F10-Beta, and are thus going to be composed. Given a certain set of
conditions to be met in advance, of which all the spin maintainers have
been notified, these are the spins that are going to be composed:
fedora-livecd-desktop-default.ks
fedora-livecd-education-math.ks
fedora-livecd-kde.ks
fedora-livecd-xfce.ks
fedora-livedvd-games.ks
Spins in the spin-kickstarts GIT repository which will not be composed
as of yet, awaiting certain conditions to be met, are:
fedora-livecd-broffice.org.ks
* Note: awaiting review by the Spin SIG which will happen tomorrow,
by me
fedora-livedvd-developer.ks
* Feature Page lacking
fedora-livedvd-electronic-lab.ks
* Feature page lacking
August 19th, during whatever is daytime for me, I'll be branching off
the spin-kickstarts GIT repository into F-10-Beta, from which the
F-10-Beta images will be composed. Development can continue in the
master branch, which is the branch that moves with rawhide.
Note that _any_ questions can be asked on this list and will be answered
promptly as I'm watching this list like a hawk, so if you have any
questions regarding the process, the required Feature pages, and
whatnot, please _do_ ask.
Kind regards,
Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip
14 years, 9 months
!!! [Fwd: Fedora 10 Beta Freeze coming soon]
by Jeroen van Meeuwen
For anyone who has not (yet) read this on the -devel or -devel-announce
mailing list, here's how this is going to end:
Features (in our case, spins) which are not approved by FESCo Aug 19th,
will -no matter how regrettable- not make it into the release.
Even if in your perception is your spin is approved by the Spin SIG,
approved by the Board to carry the Fedora trademark, and approved by
FESCo, now is the time to poke around and shake up some people to verify
if that's really the case, or you're in for a big disappointment.
The following spins carry the Spin SIG approved flag:
fedora-livecd-desktop-default.ks
fedora-livecd-education-math.ks
fedora-livecd-kde.ks
fedora-livecd-xfce.ks
fedora-livedvd-developer.ks
fedora-livedvd-electronic-lab.ks
fedora-livedvd-games.ks
Awaiting approval is:
fedora-livecd-broffice.org.ks
And they will be put through compose tests over the next week. You will
need to ensure your kickstart composes nice and easy, using the latest
livecd-tools in rawhide, against the rawhide trees, note bug numbers
related to your spin in the kickstart, and sign-off on them becoming a
feature to be released by the Fedora Project, with help of the Fedora
Project, before the Big Evil Beta Freeze, so that FESCo can verify and
Release Engineering can compose.
Note that this endeavor also requires your Feature page on the wiki to
be in the appropriate category (CategoryProposedFeaturesF10 IIRC, please
check for yourselves), so that FESCo has a tracker.
Kind regards,
Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Fedora 10 Beta Freeze coming soon
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:02:55 -0400
From: Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com>
Reply-To: fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com
Organization: Red Hat
To: fedora-devel-announce(a)redhat.com
The Fedora 10 Beta freeze is scheduled for the 19th of Aug, one week and
one day away. I know it hasn't been very long since the Alpha release,
but that's how we roll here in the land of 6 month release cycles.
Beta freeze also marks the Feature freeze, so it is very important that
you get your features into working, testable shape by then, or be
prepared to try your feature again for Fedora 11.
We'd like to treat rawhide as a slushy freeze at this point, we'll be
doing full composes against rawhide to test for various things and be
ahead of the curve come actual freeze time, so we'd like you to not land
any really dangerous changes without extensive testing first, and
notification to the Fedora lists about your scary change. If we all
work together we can get through the beta freeze period quickly and be
on to the bugfixing mode after beta releases.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Schedule is the current
schedule, although releng/Fesco/Board has the ability to change the
schedule as needed. This week's meetings of the various boards, sigs,
groups, etc.. should focus on Beta readiness. It would be good to take
a moment to see what state your area of interest is in, and how likely
it would be that said area of interest will be in a "testable" shape by
the Beta freeze. If more (reasonable) time is needed, now is the time
to let the project know so that we can effectively manage the remainder
of our release schedule.
Thanks for all your hard work in making Fedora 10 great!
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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14 years, 10 months
revisor vs livecd-creator
by Don Raikes
Hi all,
I have been readig a lot of posts on this list lately, and wonder if someone can give me some clarification on the difference between revisor and livecd-creator.
As a blind user, unfortunately, I cannot run revisor in gui mode since it is not accessible using orca on the gnome desktop, so I am not sure what benefits I would gain from using revisor.
I have created a couple of livecd's using livecd-creator, and while the process is a bit time-consuming, it seems to be pretty successful.
Any info would be appreciated.
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14 years, 10 months