[SoaS] SoaS v2 feedback

[Martin Dengler]

On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 11:56:31PM +0000, Peter Robinson 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.

Committed - thanks.  Sebastian - if this breaks zyx-installer, sorry,
please revert.

> 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.

Something's pulling cronie in - it's not explicit.  I'll ask for ssmtp
explicitly - can't hurt (FLW).

> 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

Thanks - committed.

> (no idea why you've excluded that anyway :-) )

Yeah, that was weird.

> There's also an issue with the 'olpc' repository URL. Should probably
> move it to somewhere other than dsd's home dir.

Perhaps that's recently moved as OLPC have resurrected some rpm repos:

http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-November/026100.html

I'll have a look.

> 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?

We don't hack the rpm, AFAICS (notwithstanding my "yes" to a question
like this this morning - I though the question was "do you hack
/etc/fedora-release?").  We try to do this:

rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora*-primary

...but IIRC that was failing.

> 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.

Much appreciated.

> Cheers,
> Peter

Martin
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