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

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:44, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
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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?
>>>
>>> Hi Caroline, if you have a peek in the directory:
>>>
>>>      http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/1/
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> --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.
>>
>>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.

Actually, the build number in the control panel is retrieved from
/boot/olpc_build, /etc/redhat-release and lsb_release -ds.

Regards,

Tomeu