[SoaS] Re-building Strawberry?

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Hi Martin,

cool to see progress on this front! :)

Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Hi Sebastian, list,
>
> I am looking for how to re-build Strawberry, so I can re-run the build
> adding a few extra RPMs and the Gnome group (background thread:
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2010-February/027420.html )

...I'm still not sure whether Strawberry is a better choice than 
Blueberry (I might have asked for the reasons in the background thread 
already, heh). But going with Strawberry should work fine, too.

> I've searched the list and sugarlabs site looking for precise
> instructions and kickstart, but nothing came up. Eventually I found
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar_on_a_Stick - which seems to be
> what I am looking for...

/me hides. I'm planning to work on a real customization guide at some 
point. I'm pretty swamped with A-level prep, so any help would be 
appreciated to get this done for v3.

>   * Is the ks file good for Strawberry? Is it versioned somewhere?

The link you came up with is v3 related - so it's currently a bit... 
bleeding edge, if you want.

What you're looking for is the Strawberry branch in the SL GIT repo: 
http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/soas/repos/mainline/trees/strawberry

>   * What build tool are you using? (Revisor on F11...? Any fidgeting
> with anaconda versions so that the build... builds?)

livecd-creator from the livecd-tools package... I don't think we need 
updated anaconda packages (well, unless you want to install stuff).

>   * Did you include updates repo when building? Any other repo?

Yup, updates + a sugar repo from here: 
http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/repositories/

The folder named 1 is what you want if you're rebuilding Strawberry.

>   * Do we have to worry about updates breaking things? (This is of
> course impossible to forecast, but do we know of specific bad updates,
> or has anyone done a successful update on a SoaS-started install...?)

Uh, good question. I haven't rebuilt Strawberry in a while and it has 
been some time since last June. But I'm not aware of any severe changes.

> We'd love some help in understanding these things better...

Just ping! :)

--Sebastian

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