[SoaS] SoaS v2 feedback

[Peter Robinson]

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I finally got the time tonight to sit down and put the latest SoaS2
> test release on my XO-1 to take it for a spin. Very nice. Unlike SoaS1
> it boots again on my XO-1 :-) YAY!
>
> Now some quick feedback to help improve it.
>
> On the XO release at least if you remove the livecd-tools (which will
> in turn remove syslinux) the perl dependency will be removed saving
> about 35 meg. I believe the point of the livecd-tools is to allow the
> duplication of usb keys which wouldn't work on the XO variant anyway.
> I'm working to get the syslinux dependence on perl split out into a
> sub package upstream.
>
> Also if you explicitly add 'ssmtp' or remove the requirement of cronie
> you'll lose sendmail in turn saving a couple more meg and the startup
> of a daemon.
>
> To fix the camera all you should need to add is
> 'gstreamer-plugins-good' and that should pull in all that's needed to
> get that to work (no idea why you've excluded that anyway :-) )
>
> There's also an issue with the 'olpc' repository URL. Should probably
> move it to somewhere other than dsd's home dir.
>
> It seems also the auto import of rpm keys is broken for some reason
> and hence I can't pull in the new Fedora-12 signing key which has
> screwed the updates. I presume that's due to hacked
> fedora/generic-release rpm. Can someone confirm?
>
> I'll have more of a look over the next couple of days if I get a
> chance, a quick look showed quite a few spots where the included
> packages can be reduced.

Oh and to easily test the camera from the command line using gstreamer
this simple pipeline works for me on the XO to take a photo.
gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src ! ffmpegcolorspace ! pngenc ! filesink location=foo.png

Cheers,
Peter