[IAEP] Request for help packaging activities for Sugar on a Stick

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:59:34PM +0100, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:

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>That said, unfortunately, the hardest problems are in the system 
>differences between Fedora and the OLPC images (sugar-evince, csound, 
>olpcgames problems, tamtam performance hacks, xulrunner patches etc).

Are these differences documented somewhere? Perhaps even isolated in 
patchsets against upstream code?

I believe it is beneficial to all distributors (other than OLPC itself) 
to understand what hacks have actually been applied there.

As an example, I help maintain CSound for Debian (which turned out to be 
a major task due to the code size and odd build framework) as it is 
needed for TamTam and others. Ideally same source package should be used 
for both "normal" users of CSound and Sugar integration. I would be 
happy to know about any Sugar- or OLPC-specific hacks that we might 
consider applying to Debian even if not (yet) passed upstream to the 
CSound developers and integrated with official mainline CSound.


Generally it is a major headache for "generic" distributors like Debian 
and Fedora (and derivatives like Skolelinux/Debian-edu that use upstream 
packages as-is without patching and recompiling) to deal with 
forks/hacks to backend codebases.


  - Jonas

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