[SoaS] SoaS v2 feedback

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> 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?

Yes, it certainly looks like it :-)

Peter