[Sugar-devel] Sugar in jaunty chroots... working today.

[Edward Cherlin]

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I just wanted to report a small victory: I worked out instructions at
>
>   http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Chroot
>
> which enabled me to run today's Ubuntu Jaunty sugar packages in a debootstrap
> chroot on my home machine.

What happened when you ran them? Under regular Jaunty, sugar-emulator
gets into X, changes to the Sugar cursor, and hangs.

> No promises that it will keep working tomorrow or
> that it will work on your crazy setup, but I think it's worth trying, since it
> /is/ fairly repeatable.
>
> Michael
>
> Who knows -- perhaps they'll work for others who are weary (or wary) of
> jhbuild?
>
> P.S. - If you're looking for a fun weekend project, then you might consider
> extending my notes by
>
>   * making the instructions work on more platforms
>   * figuring out how to cache the downloads, e.g. with approx
>   * baked my logic into a downloadable script or makefile
>   * etc...
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