Paraguay's os-builder

[Esteban Bordon]

I have other question,
What is the difference between olpc's kernel and dracut-modules-olpc with
your implementation of this stuffs?

2010/5/26 Esteban Bordon <ebordon at plan.ceibal.edu.uy>

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> 2010/5/26 Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
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> El Wed, 26-05-2010 a las 10:24 -0300, Esteban Bordon escribió:
>> > Hi Bernie,
>> >
>> > I'm trying to generate a f11 build using the file used to generate
>> > build of Paraguay. I'm using
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>> http://git.paraguayeduca.org/gitweb/users/bernie/olpc-os-builder.git/blob/c70efc41c939087cad72950c56db5f8c3a0db03e:/examples/f11-xo1-py.ini?js=1
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>> > I did it, but when I re-flash my XO touchpad doesn't work.
>> > Do you know this bug? Maybe I'm not using the correct .ini file.
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>> I've seen this behavior before! It happens when the kernel modules
>> corresponding to your kernel are missing from /lib/modules/<...>
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>> Now, how could that happen? In my case, it happens only on locked
>> laptops which read the kernel from the signed zip archive (actos.zip)
>> instead of the usual location (/boot/vmlinux).
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>> Do you have the signing keys on your development machine? Did you clone
>> and build the bios-crypto project? Is the bitfrost package installed?
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>> For me, the anti-theft system has always been the hardest part of the
>> entire system. To simplify things in the beginning, perhaps you could
>> temporarily disable the "signing" module on line 23 of f11-xo1-py.ini.
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>> Another tip: to speed-up your builds, you should re-point the Fedora 11
>> repositories back to the official sites. We moved them to a local mirror
>> fedora.paraguayeduca.org, but it will be slow for you!
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>> It may also be a good idea to make a local clone of our rpm repository:
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>>  http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/pyeduca-repo/f11-xo1-py/
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>> When everything is cached locally, making a new build takes about 15
>> minutes on a cheap PC box with 2GB of RAM. If you want to save some more
>> time, I recommend buying fast hard drives for your build machine.
>> Multiple cores won't help much.
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>> In the first days, I wasted plenty of time waiting for builds to
>> complete just to find out that something was broken. So I recommend
>> optimizing your build machinery as early as possible :-)
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>> --
>>   // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
>>  \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://sugarlabs.org/
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>> I'm not including signing and oats_cfg modules in my build and I made
> local clone of all repositories. Just I want take custom packages made for
> Paraguay and use it to uruguayan build. I think some packages can operate in
> our implementation.
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