[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] SoaS - moving onward...

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:02:53AM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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>On 23.02.2009, at 01:33, Gary C Martin wrote:
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>> On 22 Feb 2009, at 23:22, Caroline Meeks wrote:
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>>> How will I know what snapshot I have on a given USB so that I can 
>>> accurately report bugs?
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>> Hi Caroline, if you have a peek in the directory:
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>> 	http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/1/
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>> You'll see that Soas-200902221746.iso (currently) has the same date 
>> as latest.iso.
>>
>> I'm guessing there have been a bunch of pages and emails pointing to 
>> some random .iso builds over time, that all need to be kept upto 
>> date, pointing them to latest.iso will keep them all in sync in an 
>> automated way.
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>> --Gary
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>The question is, when I download "latest", and find a bug to report, 
>how do I find out which SoaS image this was? "About my laptop" is 
>unhelpful.
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>I guess there needs to be a version file somewhere.

I recommend that you treat Soas as a distribution on its own, and make 
sure `lsb_release --all` reports info about your distro, not the one you 
forked from. And that OLPC does the same with the XO images.

And I recommend that Sugar - if it doesn't already - gets its "About 
this system" from lsb_release.


  - Jonas

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