OLPC upgrades

Wade Brainerd wadetb at gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 14:01:30 EST 2009


Regarding Gentoo, don't miss http://www.gentooxo.org/.  That project
combined with the Sugar overlay might be a good start for a tiny XO Sugar
distribution.

Wade

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek.chauhan at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:12 AM, S Page <info at skierpage.com> wrote:
> > Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> >>
> >> Since you're looking at making a gentoo-based sugar distro, you might
> >> find http://gitorious.org/projects/sugar-gentoo useful :)
> >
> > Please update http://sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Gentoo ,
> which
> > lists a similar overlay project
> > <http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/sugar.git> by Aleksey
> Lim.
> >  Maybe you could mention differences or work together.
> >
>
> I've talked with Aleksey, and _some_ code sharing is doable. However,
> the approach of the two overlays is completely perpendicular
> (automagic ebuilds using jhconvert vs manual ebuilds), and so one
> cannot replace the other.
>
> Also, my overlay currently consists of only live git ebuilds (ie, they
> fetch and install from git instead of releases), and release ebuilds
> are blocking on a number of things including
> http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/120 . Once these problems are handled,
> I'll update the aforementioned page.
>
> >> --
> >> Sent from my mobile device
> >
> > ... with its patented "top-post and include the entire message thread
> with
> > no changes so every reader must scroll through it to see if you made
> other
> > comments" UI  8-/
>
> Yeah, it sucks. gmail for mobile doesn't show the rest of the thread,
> and top-posts without mercy <_<
>
> --
> ~Nirbheek Chauhan
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