[Dextrose] Disable mesh workround

[Anish Mangal]

Package dextrose-platform created and uploaded to intl/py repo:

http://download.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/testing/dxo2/rpms/i386/os/dextrose-platform-1-1.fc11.noarch.rpm

Related commit:

http://git.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/mainline/commit/1e0ba90c954acabb3be65d477aec72b6a7650671

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 16:11, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 16:01 -0300, Anish Mangal wrote:
>> What should be the best practice to include this and similar changes?
>>
>> Should I create a new rpm? If I do, the updater won't download it
>> unless I add the rpm in the 'Required' list of some existing rpm?
>>
>> Should it be run as a custom script after osbuilder runs?
>>
>> Should we have a standard bugfixes.rpm and we keep adding new rpm's to
>> its required list, as and when new bugfixes happen?
>
> For little bugfixes that will eventually go away, it's more efficient to
> simply use custom scripts. We won't be able to do that after mass
> deployment, though.
>
> In this particular case, there's already a bugfix available in the olpc
> kernel. However, even the proper fix requires setting a module parameter
> in modprobe.conf, so in the we'll still need to patch the distro
> somehow.
>
> I'd propose creating a package "dextrose-platform" containing bugfixes
> and other platform-level changes.
>
> --
>   // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
>  \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://sugarlabs.org/
>
>



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Anish