[Sugar-devel] How everyone can help with 0.100

Jerry Vonau jvonau at shaw.ca
Fri Aug 16 23:21:05 EDT 2013


Adding in olpc-devel.

On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 03:34 +0200, Daniel Narvaez wrote:
> This is based on the last sugar-build configuration which supported
> fedora 18. Note, I'm guessing a lot, you should give it a try before
> settling on a plan.
> 
> * webkitgtk
> 
> 
> 
> which drags in
> 
> 
> libsoup
> glib
> gobject-introspection
> pygobject
> dbus-python
> 

Kind of need to know the exact versions of the above packages, olpc is
carrying patched versions[1] of a couple of those packages, so we need
to be careful here. Anybody want to chime in on what patches need to be
present for the XOs?

* gwebsockets

What are its dependencies?

> * libxklavier (not needed on the XO according to Jerry).
> 

See for yourself[2], olpc doesn't ship sugar-cp-keyboard.

Jerry
 
1.http://mock.laptop.org/cgit/local.13.2.0/tree/SRPMS
2.http://download.laptop.org/xo-4/os/official/13.2.0-13/32013o4.packages.txt

> 
> The first group of dependencies are probably going to be quite a pain.
> So you might want to patch webactivity.py to support webkit1 instead.
> 
> That would leave only gwebsockets. Add sugar, sugar-toolkit-gtk3,
> sugar-datastore, sugar-artwork. A total of five packages, not too bad.
> 
> 
> On Saturday, 17 August 2013, Martin Abente wrote:
>         I think that having these packages on a publicly available
>         repo would be of great help, not only for testing but also for
>         developing... I know that maintaining specs and a building
>         system sounds like headache now... but what if we can split
>         the work?
>         
>         Daniel, how many system packages (aprox) are we talking about?
>         
>         
>         
>         On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca>
>         wrote:
>                 OLPC doesn't ship with cp-keyboard installed perhaps
>                 for testing on XOs
>                 we could just patch that out at rpm generation like
>                 OLPC had done in the
>                 past.
>                 
>                 Jerry
>                 
>                 On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 02:17 +0200, Daniel Narvaez
>                 wrote:
>                 > By the way I think libxklavier 5.4 is not even in
>                 Fedora 19 but it's
>                 > required for the keyboard control panel section to
>                 work.
>                 >
>                 > On Saturday, 17 August 2013, Daniel Narvaez wrote:
>                 >         >From memory gwebsockets 0.3, libxklavier
>                 5.4, webkitgtk
>                 >         2.0.x. There are almost certainly more deps.
>                 (We really need
>                 >         to start tracking our dependencies more
>                 systematically but
>                 >         it's tricky).
>                 >
>                 >         On Saturday, 17 August 2013, Jerry Vonau
>                 wrote:
>                 >                 On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 10:57 +0200,
>                 Daniel Narvaez
>                 >                 wrote:
>                 >                 > It would be nice but I think it
>                 would involve a non
>                 >                 trivial amount of
>                 >                 > work to do it properly. It's not
>                 just rebuilding the
>                 >                 sugar rpms, there
>                 >                 > are system dependencies that would
>                 need to be
>                 >                 built... latest
>                 >                 > libxklavier and webkitgtk comes to
>                 my mind, but
>                 >                 there is probably
>                 >                 > more.
>                 >                 >
>                 >                 >
>                 >
>                 >                 What versions of the above packages
>                 and gwebsockets
>                 >                 are required?
>                 >
>                 >                 Jerry
>                 >
>                 >                 >
>                 >                 > On 15 August 2013 05:12, Martin
>                 Abente
>                 >                 > <martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com>
>                 wrote:
>                 >                 >         +1 This would be great!
>                 >                 >
>                 >                 >
>                 >                 >
>                 >                 >         On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at
>                 8:42 PM, Gonzalo
>                 >                 Odiard
>                 >                 >         <gonzalo at laptop.org>
>                 wrote:
>                 >                 >                 +1 to have rpms to
>                 install over
>                 >                 13.2.0
>                 >                 >                 In this way we can
>                 isolate for other
>                 >                 changes on the
>                 >                 >                 distro,
>                 >                 >                 for every change
>                 in Fedora version,
>                 >                 there are broken
>                 >                 >                 pieces,
>                 >                 >                 we learned that...
>                 >                 >
>                 >                 >
>                 >                 >                 Gonzalo
>                 >                 >
>                 >                 >
>                 >                 >                 On Wed, Aug 14,
>                 2013 at 8:48 PM,
>                 >                 James Cameron
>                 >                 >                 <quozl at laptop.org>
>                 wrote:
>                 >                 >                         Yes, an
>                 image or a procedure
>                 >                 for retrofit of
>                 >                 >                         13.2.0
>                 please.
>                 >                 >
>                 >                 >                         I think a
>                 retrofit might
>                 >                 provide for wider
>                 >                 >                         testing.
>                  A set of RPMs to
>                 >                 >                         download
>                 and install, then
>                 >                 reboot?
>                 >                 >
>                 >                 >                         On Wed,
>                 Aug 14, 2013 at
>                 >                 03:28:14PM +0200,
>                 >                 >                         Daniel
>                 Narvaez wrote:
>                 >                 >                         > Being an
>                 OLPC list perhaps
>                 >                 it's better to
>                 >                 >                         wait we
>                 have a XO image
>                 >                 before
>                 >                 >                         > posting
>                 there?
>                 >                 >                         >
>                 >                 >                         >
>                 >                 >                         > On 14
>                 August 2013 15:26,
>                 >                 Chris Leonard
>                 >                 >
>                 <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>
>                 >                 wrote:
>                 >                 >                         >
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