[Sugar-devel] XO Fedora 22 Beta work

[Gonzalo Odiard]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Samuel Greenfeld <samuel at greenfeld.org>
wrote:

> At James' suggestion I looked a bit into a Fedora 22 beta build.  I have
> found the following problems so far getting the RPM dependencies worked out:
>
>    - olpc-library needs to depend on python-jinja2, not python-jinja.
>    The olpc-library RPM also was removed from Fedora, perhaps due to lack of
>    changes & abandonment.
>    - totem-mozplugin no longer exists and was intentionally removed.
>    Given Firefox supports various media codecs internally this might not be a
>    problem for it (apart for vmeta?); but I don't know what webkit-based
>    Browse uses for media players.
>    - xorg-x11-drv-keyboard and -mouse have been replaced by
>    xorg-x11-drv-libinput.  See
>    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LibinputForXorg
>    - 14.1.0 has custom F20 systemd binaries, but I am having trouble
>    finding information as to why.  If they have relevant changes they need to
>    be ported to F22 if not already present because using the F20 systemd
>    binaries breaks all sorts of library dependencies.
>
> Patches have been written for the first three that I could submit.
>
> We need to come up with a clear direction as to what volunteers and/or
> OLPC want & would actually use for updated XO builds.  I only have the time
> to focus on one set of images.
>

True. I am not sure what is best option here.
We still didn't solved all the issues in F20, but is already a old release.
I wonder if we can try make images based in CentOS.

Gonzalo
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