[Sugar-devel] XO Fedora 22 Beta work

[Adam Holt]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>
wrote:

> 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    - xorg-x11-drv-keyboard and -mouse have been replaced by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.
>

George Hunt is having surprisingly rapid success with CentOS 7 for XSCE.
Its new release (equivalent to RHEL 7.1) is now out...

Wishful Thinking hopes that similar progress might be possible on various
XO laptops?

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