[IAEP] Sugar packages for non-mainstream distros

[Aleksey Lim]

as far as know, altlinux was based on Mandriva, but at present there are
lots differences (but not sure I'm not RPM guy:)

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:42:58AM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:05:16AM -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> >> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> >> > just some thoughts and some practices (specific?) of Sugar packaging process
> >> > http://sugarlabs.org/go/DeploymentTeam/jhconvert
> >>
> >> Can you add something about testing these packages and reporting bugs
> >> in Sugar on specific distributions?
> >
> > About Gentoo, in fact, I'll be very surprised if Gentoo is popular among sugar
> > end users, but I use Gentoo and furthermore it helps me test sugar in various
> > environments: I've built sugar (both 0.82 and 0.83), at first sight, it works
> > - does basic operations (no errors in logs)
> >
> > But my current focus is altlinux - its a local Russian distro. The main purpose
> > of porting sugar on altlinux is the fact that it takes part in state-program "FOSS
> > for schools" - there is school-specific distro. I've uploaded sugar-fructose to
> > unstable altlinux's repo (the same status like on Gentoo) and work now on Russian
> > localization (whole this week). After back porting to school branch I suspect
> > broader feedback
> 
> Sounds very good, please keep us posted of your progress (and problems!).
> 
> Just to check, altlinux is based on Mandriva, right? If so, how is
> being coordinated the packaging between the different mandriva-like
> distros?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tomeu
>