Re: OLPC vs Fedora packages
Just thought I'd post my understanding of where the packages are
at
based on the list that was created at FUDCon
For reference see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OLPC/Packages_for_F11
Also there's the OLPCDelta tracking bug in RHBZ 462625 for quick
tracking of the ones I'm aware of.
KOJI packages
GConf-dbus - Should be able to untag. I think its also used to reduce
the deps on bonobo etc.
SDL_mixer - see RHBZ 471623 - Need someone to update if my thoughts are correct.
abiword - mostly forked to reduce dependencies on things like
printing. Probably will be unnecessary with the next major release as
most of the old deps on libgnome libgnomeprint etc should disappear
hippo-canvas - From my testing bigboard and mugshot compile OK but I
can't really test so it should be mergeable.
hulahop - OLPC-4 branch merged (and removed) just waiting for the push
to mainline. Push to testing just happened today. So can essentially
be removed from this list.
initscripts - I seem to remember the main reason was due to rainbow
using process number 1 and hence initscripts running as process number
2. JKatz is the one in the know here.
olpc-utils - due to olpcupdate not being in Fedora and its dependant on it.
sugar-evince - Probably need to get evince split into evince-libs and
evince so that sugar-evince can build against evince-libs. Not sure if
there's plans to get sugar-evince upstreamed for easy maintenance
telepathy* - no idea but its documented well by others :-)
totem-* - dependency reduction - I think these can probably mostly go
away with the plans to introduce the ability for multiple desktops to
run (sugar and something else) as e-d-s will probably be there anyway
upstart - I believe its the same as for initscripts (rainbow). This I
think is another one for JKatz. I also think there was discussion on
fedora-olpc back in Sept/Oct timeframe.
JOYRIDE packages
libertas-usb8388-firmware - is in Fedora-10 and rawhide already. I
thought I'd unlinked the non mainline version as we were shipping the
same package in F-10 as we are for 9.1.0 and rawhide has the latest
(or near latest) version.
I'll also link the RHBZ bugs if there is one near each of the
mentioned packages in the wiki.
To reply to myself....
The other things that also come to mind but aren't listed that I think
also need fixing are (or at least I'm not sure the state of them):
- xulrunner and the OLPC patches (currently using mainline Fedora
package) - Mario & Simon
- NetworkManager - Not sure what the state of the mesh patches (or
maybe its some other patches) is.
- numeric vs numpy (I think this is the pygtk issue).
Peter