Re: Slimmed Down Fedora 10 on XO (was Fedora 10 on XO)
by Greg Smith
Hi Paul,
I mean slimmed down Fedora (probably shouldn't even call it Fedora at
that point) plus Gnome, KDE of XFCE window manager. Is that precise enough?
If its as easy as yum install gnome on top of 8.2.0 image, that would be
great!
Thanks,
Greg S
pgf(a)laptop.org wrote:
> greg wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Thanks for all the feedback on my questions about what it would take to
> > run a slimmed down Fedora 10 on the XO NAND.
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/2008-December/msg00022.html
> >
> > To reiterate, the goal is one distribution with two Desktop Environments
> > (Sugar and one "standard" one).
> >
> > I think the main work now is to pick the minimal package list that we
> > need and will fit on the XO NAND.
> >
> > Can anyone get a slimmed down Fedora 10 with window manager running on
> > an XO?
>
> yes. install any joyride.
>
> i'm being flip, of course, but please be precise. our installs
> _are_ "slimmed down fedora" releases. and sugar _is_ a window
> manager.
>
> (but seriously: we only need to add to what we have -- we don't
> need to start from scratch, rebuilding and/or subtracting from
> fedora.)
>
> paul
> =---------------------
> paul fox, pgf(a)laptop.org
> give one laptop, get one laptop --- http://www.laptop.com/xo
>
15 years, 4 months
Change to bundlebuilder breaking Sugar packaging guidelines?
by Greg DeKoenigsberg
Hi folks. I've been working on My Very Own First Activity (yaaay!) but
ran into some problems (boooo.)
So I'm trying to package XoIRC, and thanks to dgilmore's help, I finally
got it to build, but it looks like a change in bundlebuilder's behavior
has led to some... oddness. Speficially this bit:
def install(self, prefix):
self.builder.build()
activity_path = os.path.join(prefix, 'share', 'sugar',
'activities',
self.config.bundle_root_dir)
Which means a couple of things.
First, the proper %install section, which once looked like this:
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{sugaractivitydir}
python setup.py install $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{sugaractivitydir}
...now appears to look like this:
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{sugaractivitydir}
python setup.py install --prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}
I'm surprised that no one has found this -- I don't know when those
changes to bundlebuilder went in, but anyone who would have tried to build
a new activity RPM using the old invocation of setup.py would have gotten
breakage.
In fact, I think this implies that anyone who rebuilds any newly-rebuilt
bundle *will* get this breakage... am I right?
What was the reason for this addition to bundlebuilder, does anyone know?
I'm going to change the Sugar packaging guidelines here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/SugarActivityGuidelines
...unless someone tells me that bundlebuilder's new behavior is in error.
--g
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15 years, 4 months
Slimmed Down Fedora 10 on XO (was Fedora 10 on XO)
by Greg Smith
Hi All,
Thanks for all the feedback on my questions about what it would take to
run a slimmed down Fedora 10 on the XO NAND.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/2008-December/msg00022.html
To reiterate, the goal is one distribution with two Desktop Environments
(Sugar and one "standard" one).
I think the main work now is to pick the minimal package list that we
need and will fit on the XO NAND.
Can anyone get a slimmed down Fedora 10 with window manager running on
an XO?
If so, can you record the packages and available space in the
specifications section here?
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Run_Fedora_applications_on_XO
RTFM answers with URLs also welcome.
Chris and Erik,
Where are we with getting a proof of concept for this feature in place?
You both mentioned some work in this area (Chris on resurrecting
something Scott did and Erik on other work). Let me know the status and
next steps.
The hard part will come when we need to pick the bare minimum set of
functionality. I especially want to know what additional
libraries/RPMs/features we need to install beyond what we alrady have in
XO 8.2.0.
Thanks,
Greg S
15 years, 4 months
One SD card Left
by Karlie Robinson
I expect to sell the last SD card today. Well at least the last of the
initial 160 that were ordered.
So we'll be sold out until we receive more SD cards on Jan 2.
The cards will be in a back order/pre-sale type situation at
On-Disk.com. I'm not sure what will happen to the Amazon.com listing
while we're out of stock.
I added another 25 with an "in stock" date of January 2, but I don't
know if it will simply show out of stock or what.
~Karlie
15 years, 4 months
[Fwd: Att: Karlie]
by Karlie Robinson
this email sort of sums up what we talked about in the meeting yesterday.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Att: Karlie
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:03:09 +0000
From: nickgo[snip]
To: on-disk[snip]
Dear Karlie,
I spoke to you on Wednesday by phone to inquire about returning the Fedora 10 for OLPC disk that I purchased from you through Amazon.com. The problem is, first, that the program keeps freezing when I try to do various things (such as downloading a plug-in for FireFox or attempting to zoom in or out of the browser view), and, second, that each time I boot up I get the following message: “Nautilus cannot be used now due to an unexpected error from Bonobo when attempting to locate the factory. Killing bonobo-activation-server and restarting Nautilus may help fix the problem.” I don't know whether the fact that Nautilus can't be used has anything to do with the freezing up problem.
As you suggested over the phone, I tried to get some support from Fedora 10. I posted my questions and concerns on their forum, as well as searching the OLPC forum, and the answer in both forums was, essentially, that Fedora 10 was too bulky for the XO computer. There was some sentiment in the OLPC forum that the disk I bought should not have been released (“irresponsible” was one term used), while in the Fedora 10 forum I got the response that Fedora 9 derivative would have been more compatible with the XO, but that perhaps I should try to “disable some unneeded services.”
Since you did say that you would be willing to accept a return of the disk, I would like to return it to you for a refund. I would appreciate your sending me the instructions for returning the disk to you. My Amazon order # was 104-0098588-2483405.
Thanks,
Nicholas Gordon
15 years, 4 months
Fwd: Gadget fedora package
by Marco Pesenti Gritti
If someone has a chance to review this, it would be very useful. We
need it to improve collaboration scalability/reliability with a jabber
server.
Thanks!
Marco
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Marco Pesenti Gritti <marcopg(a)sugarlabs.org>
Date: Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:43 PM
Subject: Gadget fedora package
To: server-devel(a)lists.laptop.org
Just fyi, I submitted a gadget fedora package for review. It's going
to require ejabberd 2.0.2.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475971
Marco
15 years, 4 months
Re: Fedora 10 on XO
by Chris Ball
Hi,
> is xfce the right choice? i know it's "easy", but we should be
> sure it's correct. (i've been using it on my own xo, in a
> relatively unsophisticated way, but in the end that only makes it
> feel like an unsophisticated interface, so i may not be the best
> judge. :-)
I agree that the choice is yet to be made and isn't totally obvious.
I prefer using GNOME, but our current answer for "How much disk space
does it require to run Fedora 10 and GNOME and apps?" is "a 4GB SD card
and 256M of swap", so it seems hard to get there from here. Maybe we
can run GNOME and some tiny set of apps without blowing the NAND budget,
though..
- Chris.
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Chris Ball <cjb(a)laptop.org>
15 years, 4 months
