[Sugar-devel] Installing gstreamer media codecs on XO-1

[Kevin Mark]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 03:29:03AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
 
> > 3. is the update step above necessary (it requires downloading 33MB) 
> 
> I have not tried this, it may be. I dont know the complete list of rpms that it
> installed other then the 2 you said.  those 2 might work with the current
> packages or they might need to update a few packages and download the needed
> dependencies which means the update is needed.  This sounds like it might need
> a local 'proxy'/mirror server to the needed rpms. so the xo's could do the 'rpm
> update' but would get the 'update' and the needed rpms from a local server.
> this would need the XOs to alter their rpm repo list.  i'm not a rpm expert, so
> you'd need to test a solution to ensure it works and does not alter other
> support issues.
> 
> old way:
> XO->Fedora server (per each XO over the global internet)
> vs
> new way:
> local Fedora server->Fedora server (via the global internet one time)
> XO->local Fedora server(per each XO over a local area network (LAN))

Someone also reminded me of using SSHFS on the XO to connect to the XS as a way
to have /var/cache/yum with the rpms you need. 

> Hopes this explains and any one can correct/add as needed.
> 
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