OLPC config in salut in F9?

Guillaume Desmottes guillaume.desmottes at collabora.co.uk
Thu Jun 26 11:03:43 EDT 2008


Le jeudi 26 juin 2008 à 17:01 +0200, Morgan Collett a écrit :
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:01, Guillaume Desmottes
> <guillaume.desmottes at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
> > Le mardi 24 juin 2008 à 17:36 -0700, Brian Pepple a écrit :
> >> On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 01:12 +0200, Morgan Collett wrote:
> >> > Can we enable the OLPC-specific patches and config in telepathy-salut
> >> > in F-9? We're rebasing OLPC builds on F-9 and it would be good to work
> >> > in the F-9 branch and not need to fork.
> >>
> >> Does it make sense to have these patches in F9? I'm on vacation right
> >> now, so I don't really have time to look at the patches.  If it makes
> >> sense to have these in F9 in addition to OLPC, I don't have a problem
> >> with you doing enabling it.
> >
> > Not really. These patches are ugly OLPC specific workarounds due to XO
> > security model (Rainbow).
> > Building Salut with --enable-olpc doesn't hurt though (Debian does).
> 
> I asked Dennis about branching salut, and he recommended we try keep
> everything in F-9 if possible. Is it feasible to put the rainbow
> specific patches in such that they are enabled with a runtime option,
> if built with --enable-olpc?

Then it would be build time option and F9 users will have the patch
applied anyway (which is not really a good idea).


	G.




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