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

[Xin Wang]

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 03:01:17PM +0800, Xin Wang wrote:
>> 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 I'm asking because there are outdated X11:Sugar and X11:Sugar:Unstable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?
>
> Sweets Distribution is being built w/ OBS (SL instance). AFAIK, OBS
> supports linking repos from another OBS instances. If it is possible, you
> can link Sweets Distribution repo from packages.sl.o to susestudio.
>
> --
> Aleksey

OK, I'll have a try.

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