[Fedora-spins] Requesting technical approval for Sugar Spin

Sebastian Dziallas sebastian at when.com
Wed Oct 15 12:34:05 UTC 2008


Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>>> Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
>>>> I've uploaded a new version here:
>>>>
>>>>     http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/kickstart/fedora-livecd-sugar.ks
>>>>
>>> Looks pretty reasonable to me, I see no objections in taking this in for 
>>> F11, could I get another +1 from someone?
>> Sure but could you add a comment on why you are using slim in the 
>> kickstart file itself?
> 
> Sure! ;)
> 
> Well, we're trying to lower the system requirements for this spin as 
> much as possible, since we got several requests to make it boot on 
> machines with 256 RAM.
> 
> GDM is known to pull in quite some Gnome-related dependencies, which we 
> don't really need (since I tried to completely exclude Gnome). So we 
> discussed the use of slim instead of gdm and thanks to Marco's work, 
> we're for now including slim.
> 
>> You are using generic-logos but not generic-release.
> 
> Sorry, I should have changed this, yeah. Done in the new version.
> 
>> Also, you ks file seems derived from desktop ks so I would like to note 
>> that some more changes have been made in the original such as dropping 
>> GNOME games. You might want to look into rebasing it to match as much as 
>>   applicable.
>>
>> Rahul
> 
> I've now synced it against the latest desktop ks from our 
> spin-kickstarts pool and uploaded new version at the same place.
> 
> Thanks for all your feedback!
> 
> --Sebastian

Any chance for getting another +1 here so that I can push it to the 
spin-kickstarts GIT repo?

Btw: I needed to disable SELinux in the latest version since bug #466884 
is giving us problems with SELinux and slim. Once this is fixed, it will 
definitely be enabled again.

--Sebastian



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