[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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