as far as know, altlinux was based on Mandriva, but at present there are lots differences (but not sure I'm not RPM guy:)
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:42:58AM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Aleksey Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:05:16AM -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Aleksey Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > just some thoughts and some practices (specific?) of Sugar packaging > >> > process > >> > http://sugarlabs.org/go/DeploymentTeam/jhconvert > >> > >> Can you add something about testing these packages and reporting bugs > >> in Sugar on specific distributions? > > > > About Gentoo, in fact, I'll be very surprised if Gentoo is popular among > > sugar > > end users, but I use Gentoo and furthermore it helps me test sugar in > > various > > environments: I've built sugar (both 0.82 and 0.83), at first sight, it > > works > > - does basic operations (no errors in logs) > > > > But my current focus is altlinux - its a local Russian distro. The main > > purpose > > of porting sugar on altlinux is the fact that it takes part in > > state-program "FOSS > > for schools" - there is school-specific distro. I've uploaded > > sugar-fructose to > > unstable altlinux's repo (the same status like on Gentoo) and work now on > > Russian > > localization (whole this week). After back porting to school branch I > > suspect > > broader feedback > > Sounds very good, please keep us posted of your progress (and problems!). > > Just to check, altlinux is based on Mandriva, right? If so, how is > being coordinated the packaging between the different mandriva-like > distros? > > Regards, > > Tomeu > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
