[Sugar-devel] jhbuild obsoleted itself:)

[David Farning]

Michael,

Could you wrap the chroot procees into a script?  It looks pretty
useful, especially for testing!

david

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Michael Stone
<michael.r.stone at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mikus,
>
> An idea that I've been working on for the last few days (which is
> certainly compatible with proxies) is to use recent distro packages to
> build a chroot from which to test sugar.
>
> I've (clumsily) described my preliminary procedures in
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Chroot. (Unfortunately,
> there's a gconf infelicity in the rawhide chroot that prevents sugar
> from successfully launching; however, things work nicely in the debian
> sid chroot.)
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
>
> P.S. - It should even be possible to use Linux' new network namespaces
> feature to set up arbitrary network configurations for efficient
> network testing -- even between multiple versions of sugar -- on a
> single machine!
>
> On 1/15/09, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com> wrote:
>>> I have just gone through the wiki and deleted the
>>> developmentteam/jhbuild/* pages:)
>>>
>>> These pages were created in around June of 2008 when jhbuild was the
>>> only method for running Sugar on non-XO platforms.  Now that we have
>>> packages for several distributions and will be using the distributions
>>> as our primary means of delivery, it makes sense to reduce the
>>> emphasis of jhbuild as a method for delivering Sugar to end-users.
>>
>> I am not currently a git user because git appears to not support a
>> proxy (and to try to bypass that proxy I would need rewiring the
>> place).  But jhbuild looks like the principal alternative to my
>> having to wait for someone to supply me with a binary for my XO.
>>
>> I am concerned that 1cc is now focusing on Windows (for instance,
>> see what kind of tickets have recently been posted to laptop.org
>> trac).  Should binaries (with updated Sugar content) for the XO-1
>> platform cease to be available, would the jhbuild environment you
>> envision be able to create a build for the XO-1 platform ?
>>
>> mikus
>>
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