[spin-kickstarts] #18: fedora-livedvd-developer.ks fails to compose
by fedora-badges
#18: fedora-livedvd-developer.ks fails to compose
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Reporter: rishi | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: critical | Milestone: Fedora 10 GA
Component: fedora-developer | Keywords:
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fedora-livedvd-developer.ks contains sysprof, which has been removed from
Fedora to Livna because it needs a kernel module. Due to this the spin
fails to compose.
The attached patch fixes this issue.
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Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/spin-kickstarts/ticket/18>
spin-kickstarts <https://fedorahosted.org/spin-kickstarts/>
Kickstarts that the Spin SIG reviews, tests, maintains and releases (as a package).
14 years, 3 months
Re: [Fedora-spins] Games Spin Status
by Bruno Wolff III
This is pretty useful, I am going to try to tie this into a thread on the
spins list which might end up looking weird for threading.
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 14:10:55 -0600,
Callum Lerwick <seg(a)haxxed.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to> wrote:
> > It would be especially useful to hear from people that have estimates on how
> > many Windows users that are likely to try out Fedora spins are likely to
> > be using vfat on their C: drive.
>
> According to the latest Steam hardware survey:
>
> http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
>
> 97.33% of users are using NTFS. (Click "Other settings" on the bottom)
>
> Really the only worry I see is that 4GB+ images probably won't work
> for Live USB. USB sticks are usually FAT, and I think the Live USB
> system requires it, as it uses syslinux. Booting Live USB off NTFS or
> ext2 should be possible to implement. NTFS patches for GRUB exist, but
> Fedora's GRUB doesn't seem to have them:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/lode_leroy/grubinstall/
Grub also allows its files to be referenced by block numbers. That could
be used to work around loading the grub config file.
I don't think getting people to reformat their usb drives is that big of
a deal. They can copy stuff off, format it, and then copy stuff back.
The issue is getting it to work both as liveusb and still letting it be
used under windows for moving files around.
14 years, 4 months
The magic 4GiB squashfs filesize limit
by Jeroen van Meeuwen
During our last meeting, we did not have enough time to address all
items on our agenda, so I'm creating a bunch of threads where we can
start discussing some of the topics that we missed, so that we may have
a smoother meeting next time, and can actually address current spins and
spin review requests.
This thread concerns the 4GiB squashfs filesize limit, which will cause
the DVD .iso file to be over 4GiB as well.
There's one basic argument to make against a DVD .iso file being over
4GiB, and that is that users downloading the DVD .iso file to a vfat
filesystem cannot go over the magic 4GB filesize limit.
Note that it really is the .iso file size we're talking about, and we
really don't care about the >4GB squashfs image; it just so happens that
if the contents of a .iso go >4GB, the .iso will go >4GB ;-)
This particular issue is raised by the Games Spin, which I consider one
of the first downloads for a Windows user who may or may not be using
vfat still. Lots of (Windows) people want to see what Games are
available on Linux, right? A relatively greater portion of these Windows
users (then say, Linux users) may still be using vfat, and that's what
I'm concerned with.
Also note that our x86_64 installation DVD is oversized in this aspect
as well.
I wanted to vote on this during our last meeting. Either we block >4GB
spins, or we allow them. So, the vote becomes: Do we allow .iso files
over 4GB?
Please allow for a discussion if necessary, and then vote, so you do not
have to change your vote after someone made you change your opinion ;-)
Kind regards,
Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip
14 years, 4 months
Geo Spin patch to spins-kickstart
by Yaakov Nemoy
Hey All
Attached is a kickstart to do the Geo Spin. In short, it just picks
the packages that are good for doing Geo Stuff. In long, it doesn't
actually work that well yet. One of the more important tools, JOSM is
only available in the Open Suse Build service, and has dependencies
that are not in fedora. In order to make this work, you'll have to
comment out josm and garmintools for now.
-Yaakov
14 years, 4 months
Spins SIG Meeting Minutes 19-01-2009
by Jeroen van Meeuwen
These are the meeting minutes for our last meeting, and as you can see
there's lots of stuff to do still, even some of our agenda items needed
to be moved to our mailing list or to the next meeting.
The minutes are also available on the meeting wiki page at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Spins_SIG_Meeting_2009-01-19
Before the week is over, you'll see some threads on our Spins SIG list ;-)
Kind regards,
Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip
PS: Can someone point me to the irc2html log converter?
= Meeting Minutes =
== Attendees ==
* [[User:Kanarip|Jeroen van Meeuwen]]
* [[User:Bkearney|Bryan Kearney]]
* [[User:Bruno|Bruno Wolff]]
* [[User:Poelcat|John Poelstra]]
* [[User:Notting|Bill Nottingham]]
* [[User:Nirik|Kevin Fenzi]]
* [[User:Jwb|Josh Boyer]]
* [[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]]
* [[User:Huff|David Huff]]
* [[User:Igor|Igor Pires Soares]]
== Spins Process ==
* [[User:Kanarip]]: Q&A
* bkearney: Accepted means "will be composed and released through
Release Engineering"?
** kanarip: Accepted means it'll be handed off to Release Engineering to
be composed and released, and get a torrent and page on
spins.fedoraproject.org
** poelcat: If it does not fail testing
* bruno: No wiki name space described for the Spins pages
** kanarip: /Foo_Spin or SIGs/Education/Education_Live_Spin
** nirik: $name_Spin would be better as wiki hates /'s
* bkearney: If trademark is not accepted, it is not a spin?
** kanarip: then it's a "Fedora Remix", and goes back to category
Incomplete_Spin, yes
* kanarip: Take the process up for vote now, get people to draft up the
details and review in 2 weeks
* kanarip: Vote is: Do you agree with the process set forth in the
Spins_Process wiki page, bearing in mind some of the details still need
to be filled out?
** kanarip, bkearney, nirik, bruno, notting, huff, igorps, poelcat: +1
** Vote passed
* kanarip: i need 1-3 volunteers who can take on the details on the
process, the 5 sub-items for agenda item #1
** bryan, bruno, kanarip taking on the details on Spins_Process, up for
review and voting during our next meeting in two weeks
== Action Items ==
* Create details pages up for review in our next meeting (bkearney,
bruno, kanarip)
== Meeting Time and Schedule ==
* kanarip: Does the current time and schedule work for most of us?
** SIG: Yes
* kanarip: Meeting time and schedule set until someone brings it up again
== Determining the Spins SIG workflow ==
* kanarip: i'd like to see a more formalized set of tasks to be
performed by the Spins SIG and the spin maintainers, so that we know
when to branch off GIT, what to branch, what to compose(-test), what to
expect from spin maintainers, etc.
** huff, bruno; since the process details are not there yet, part of the
timeline and such isn't available to formalize
== Process of recurring releases ==
* The question is whether Spins that have been approved for Fedora N-1
need to get trademark approval again
* The question also is what to do with the Wiki pages?
** nirik: How about they have to add a page for each release, but can
automagically pass some steps? board approval? spins sig approval?
** kanarip: poelcat and myself have thought of a way to maintain the
same page for different releases, linking to the release-specific
revision of that page.
** poelcat: Overview pages would have to be modified
** kanarip: Category: package are overview pages
** ianweller chimes in but since there's only 10 minutes left, we need
to take this to the fedora-wiki mailing list
== Action Items ==
* kanarip to take the recurring releases process wiki tracking
discussion to the fedora-wiki mailing list
== Media larger then 4GB ==
* A vote was started, but due to the time constraint it didn't pass nor fail
* kanarip suggested bruno strips the Games spin to under 4GiB for now,
so that it is not an issue, and revisit for Beta
== Action Item ==
* kanarip to put the 4GiB limit on the Agenda for the next meeting
== Current Spins ==
* Call for volunteers to check the current spin pages and add them to
the appropriate category is moved to mailing list.
14 years, 4 months