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

[Aleksey Lim]

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 I'm asking because there are outdated X11:Sugar and X11:Sugar:Unstable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