On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 03:42, Simon Schampijer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/01/2009 06:13 AM, Kevin Cole wrote: >> >> First: congrats to all. >> >> Second: User-friendliness bug: >> >> The release notes say "Please see the instructions (SoaS, Fedora, >> Ubuntu, Debian, etc.) of choice to upgrade to this release." >> No link to instructions provided in either e-mail or wiki version. >> Searching the wiki turned up "Supported Systems" which merely states >> that to upgrade "sudo olpc-update 767" with the appropriate build >> number. Build number not provided in the release notes. >> >> So a build number and/or a link to the best set of instructions would >> be most welcome. >> >> Thanks. > > This is the announcement of the source tarballs of the Sucrose 0.86 release. > Now it needs to be packaged for the distributions. Each distribution will > have another way of packaging (deb, rpm...) and will have different ways of > updating (yum, aptitude, olpc-update...). > > Sugar is the upstream project, that is why I do not add downstream > distribution notes in the announcements. What would be nice is that > packagers of each distribution update the wiki instructions for their > distribution accordingly and send a note to the mailing list to encourage > testers. > > I hope that we will have a new soas snapshot containing the 0.86 for testing > soon as well. > > In the hope that this explanation is of any help, > Simon
Ah. Thanks. Too much e-mail, and that means I am not following as closely as I should, I suspect. The impression I was getting was that "final release" meant "already in some semi-simple way, ready for the XO 1.0, and possibly SoaS". That, and I've been "burning the midnight oil at both ends". (How's that for mixed metaphor?) -- Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo Washington, DC http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
