[Sugar-devel] Browse failed to start with dbus UnknownMethod error in openSUSE

[Xin Wang]

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 02:19:08PM +0800, Xin Wang wrote:
>> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>> > On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 11:47:03PM +0800, Xin Wang wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> Recently I'm trying to package sugar for openSUSE. Glucose packages
>> >> have finished, and now I'm packaging Browse. But it failed to start
>> >> with following error.
>> >
>> > btw, do you package Sugar for official repos or in of OBS projects?
>> >
>> > --
>> > Aleksey
>>
>> I'm packaging in OBS for now.
>>
>> https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home%3Adramwang%3Asugar
>>
>> When everything is mature, I will submit a request for merge into official repo.
>
> I'm asking because there are outdated X11:Sugar and X11:Sugar:Unstable
> OBS projects. afaik, they existed as a standalone projects all time
> (you can ping cyberorg on #opensuse-edu channel on freenode, I was
> working with him when I was populating these projects).
>
> Also, you can consider contributing to Sweets Distributoin[1] which
> exists on Sugar Labs instance of OBS on packages.sugarlabs.org.
> Right now, Sweets Distributoin support Ubuntu and stable OLCP OS
> (Fedora-14 based). The reasons to have Sweets Distributoin (in comparing
> with Sugar in official packages) are:
>
> * it is not all time possible to package new Sugar versions to already
>  released official repos (afaik, only Debian/Ubuntu does it)
>
> * having standalone repos, there is a benefit to package (Sweets
>  Distributoin places it to /opt directory to not interfere w/ official
>  packages) some packages with different build flags (like building
>  telepathy-mission-control w/o keyring support, which is not used in
>  Sugar) or different versions (if there is a problem w/ versions in
>  official packages, like xulrunner-1.9 for gtk2 based Browse).
>
> * we have the same Sugar version on all supported platforms[2] that should
>  simplify supporting (not that people on Fedora have the recent one,
>  and older Sugar on distros that is not well supported by packagers)
>
>
> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sweets_Distribution
>    http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Harmonic_Distribution/Supported_platforms
>
> --
> Aleksey

Thanks a lot, I will have a look at it.

I'm planning to use susestudio to make a openSUSE LiveCD with sugar.

I'm not sure  if susestudio can use packages in Sweets Distribution directly?

-- 
Xin Wang (http://dram.me/)