[Sugar-devel] Testing images with SUgar 0.102

[Sameer Verma]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> Hi Sameer,
> These images don't have harvest installed.
> That is one of the reasons I call them "clean images",
> don't have any customization.

Thx. Good to know.

Sameer

>
> Gonzalo
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:37 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:08:36PM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
>> >> > On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:36 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> > > Are there any patches in the SL102 branch [1] that you'd like to
>> >> > > push upstream?  I've looked at them.
>> >> >
>> >> > I would love to see official OLPC images with Sugr 0.102, in that
>> >> > case you can use everything you want :)
>> >>
>> >> We're looking into the feasibility of Fedora 20 with Sugar 0.102 now,
>> >> so please continue to be involved.  ;-)
>> >
>> >
>> > These are great news! Maybe we can do  chat to coordinate?
>> > The next OLPC AU image will be based on F20 too,
>> > then we can join forces...
>>
>> James,
>>
>> Just a minor point: Address the harvest-client RPM issue for OLPC
>> builds, if you can. I know AU needs it, but I don't think the others
>> will. Uninstalling harvest-client.rpm on a machine or three is ok, but
>> on several will become cumbersome.
>>
>> It is encouraging to see effort streams coming together.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Sameer
>>
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > The changes are mostly related with the change in Sugar from GConf
>> >> > to GSettings, added dconf as a dependency (we need add it to sugar
>> >> > rpm as Requires) and a few configs.
>> >>
>> >> Yes, I've reviewed the patches, we have some of them in master branch
>> >> already, and will take the new ones as needed, but I'm wondering if
>> >> _you_ would like to push any of them before I do so?  I've added you
>> >> to the xobuild group on crank, so you can rebase on master and push on
>> >> /git/projects/olpc-os-builder/
>> >
>> >
>> > Ok, I will look at that.
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > The sugar rpms are the Fedora 20 rpms rebuilded in F18.  I just
>> >> > needed do a single change in the sugar rpm (I am working with
>> >> > pbrobinson to push it upstream) and needed remove libwebkit2gtk from
>> >> > the Requires on sugar-toolkit-gtk3
>> >>
>> >> Thanks.  The OLPC RPM dropbox is available now on dev.laptop.org.
>> >> Should we use that or use yours in personal directory?  To use the
>> >> dropbox, place them in public_rpms/{f18,f20} (noarch) or
>> >> {f18,f20}-{xo1,xo1.5,xo1.75,xo4} (i686 and armv7hl).
>> >>
>> >
>> > Ok, I need check how will work with the AU images, where we use
>> > patched rpms. I will try to make it work with the standard (dropbox)
>> > if possible.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> > > What effect did the removal of Gnome [2] have on the available
>> >> > > disk space on XO-1?  It seemed negligible when I tried it.
>> >> >
>> >> > I tried to build a XO-1 image with gnome,and just at start Sugar
>> >> > show a message of Journal full. Removing gnome solved the problem,
>> >> > but I found dconf was not installed, then the configuration were not
>> >> > saved. Also gstreamer-python was needed by some activities.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks.
>> >>
>> >> For 13.2.0 and 13.2.1 we had been building for XO-1 with a smaller
>> >> activity set, G1G1Lite, and your Sugarlabs/0.102 set is same on all
>> >> laptop models, so somewhat larger.
>> >>
>> >> The free disk space on your build may be even less than 13.2.1; 729MB
>> >> vs 723MB for the .img file.
>> >>
>> >> You might solve this with a 0.102Lite, but that increases the activity
>> >> list maintenance load unless you use Wiki templates.
>> >>
>> >
>> > True. I preferred start with the same group of activities and remove
>> > Gnome.
>> > In general deployments do not include Gnome in the XO1
>> > (at least, Uy and Py don't do it)
>> > and request for activities as TuxPaint and TuxMath. I am not a fan of
>> > them,
>> > but the idea is make something useful.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> > > Can you also publish the 41001SL0.zd{,.md5} files for use with
>> >> > > external SD card?  If not, you might remove [sd_card_image] from
>> >> > > your .ini file and save some time.
>> >> >
>> >> > Ahh, that is the use of these files :)
>> >> > Uploading....
>> >>
>> >> Thanks, I see them uploading.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Uploaded now. There are info about how to install them, right?
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >> I've also begun reproducing the build locally.
>> >>
>> >> For your interest, hacked [2] kspost.60.nochroot.activities.py and scp
>> >> words-21 and turtleblocks-207 from sunjammer because
>> >> download.sugarlabs.org 302 redirects to an .au mirror which is out of
>> >> sync.
>> >>
>> >> References:
>> >>
>> >> 1.  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/RPM_Dropbox
>> >>
>> >> 2.  http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/z/1XBy9a.txt
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> James Cameron
>> >> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> > Gonzalo Odiard
>> >
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