However, I'm a bit nervous about the prospect of wasting
people's time.
Here's the thing, and it pains me to admit it: I'm not sure where we are,
exactly. I've had a good bit less official job time to devote to this
effort lately, and our current status is a bit of a mystery to me.
Agreed it all seems a bit mish-mash.
* We've got lots of packages queued up for acceptance into F-11,
and
SMParrish has been reviewing new stuff like mad. Yay!
Is there a tracker or have they been added to the existing OLPC in
Fedora tracker bug. Makes it easier to see what the current status is.
* Marco tracked down the weird boot issues with rawhide and the XO,
and
those should now be fixed. Yay!
Wicked! This is good work. Now i have a XO next on my list is booting
rawhide on SD.
* People are tackling individual issues as they find them. Yay!
All of this is great. However:
* It's still unclear to me which packages in dist-olpc4 are building because
they have to build, and which have simply not been untagged;
* It's still unclear to me which necessary packages are still sitting in
joyride and have yet to be brought into rawhide;
* The process for keeping track of all of this is currently in poor shape,
which is, admittedly, my fault.
The (your) page on the wiki is pretty close to my understanding, See
the email I sent you earlier, and the thread I started about moving
joyride to rawhide.
So I'd like to step back and ask a question.
Since the goal is to create a bootable build of F-11 on the XO -- how is
that process going? I know there have been discussions; where are we, right
now, with this process?
Well if the boot issues on XO on rawhide are fixed it seems we're
there in the basics. The question of using a base F-11 in replacement
of 9.1.0 as far as I'm aware comes down to the question of rainbow and
the associated changes to the boot process
(kernel/initscript/olpcrd/upstart/dbus) which unfortunately is down to
a few people that have sufficient understanding to be able to deal
with that.
I'm wondering if it might not be the best idea, at this point, to
go ahead
and start working backwards from rawhide, and see what's busted, and start
tracking that in bugzilla.
From my point of view that's sort of what I'm trying to do. I
know I
can't deal with the whole rainbow/kernel stuff but where possible
I'm
tracking/filing bugs testing etc. Compared to where we were at with
the rebase to F-10 when I first started to get involved I think we're
alot better off than we were.
Peter