[SoaS] SoaS v2 feedback

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 01:18, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Oh, that means that https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498900
is fixed in F12?

Regards,

Tomeu

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