On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 09:39:41AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Nov 29, 2010, Alexandre Oliva <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've uploaded noarch RPM packages named freed-ora, freed-ora-freedom and > > freed-ora-freedom-report to the F1[345]-testing repositories: > > Version 2-1 does renames freed-ora to freed-ora-release (should update > automatically), and integrates the freed-ora-freedom-report > functionality (conflicting with Fedora's non-Free kernel packages) into > freed-ora-freedom, using pre and triggerin scripts. > > Those using Freed-ora, please give it a try and let me know how it went. > > > http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/freed-ora/f13-testing/noarch > > http://fsfla.org/svn/fsfla/software/linux-libre/freed-ora/freed-ora-pkg/master
It was pretty good, fortunately i had another machine not upgraded yet to Linux Libre (yes, i'm thinking a some-kind of marketing about "Upgrade to Freedom!", or so), so it was a real test of how the new stuff could work in another environments. This said, just as you are releasing two new packages (one for configuring the freed-ora repository for not so tech savvy users like me), i think we could spread the word among Fedora community about two stages for achieve a real Software Freedom in our systems. First at all, installing linux-libre: # yum localinstall $url # yum install kernel-libre And then remove the ugly stuff (topic for another thread): # yum install freed-ora-freedom (it conflicts with ugly stuff) # yum remove ugly-stuff # yum install freed-ora-freedom (or "repeat until it shines?":D) > -- > Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ > You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi > Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member > Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer Now, about a shortened url for an easier "spread of the word": The new freed-ora-release rpm installs freed-ora*.repo files than use $releasever in the base url of the repo, instead of hard-coded urls for each release. Then, should i suppose it's the same file, no matter which directory is in the rpm for configuring the yum repo? If that's right, then it could be used a single url for all Fedora releases, and it even wouldn't demand more effort from Linux-libre project than provide a permanent url, a descriptive one let's say. It could be a symbolic link to the last freed-ora-release{whatever}.rpm and that way without changing how-to's or whatever media we spread the instructions for the "Upgrade to Fedora Freedom!" campaign. I think even in banners, stickers and things like that, for example: # rpm -i http://ur1.ca/2hoog && yum install kernel-libre (actually you can test the ur1.ca url and you'll see links to real rpm) and another line to remove the ugly stuff: # rpm -i http://ur1.ca/2hopm && yum remove {stuff freed-ora-freedom conflicts} ; "repeat until all the non-free-stuff it's removed". I know it's not perfect, but it's a test of concept for a release of a something like "Freedom is a Feature!" or "Upgrade to Freedora Freedom!" It would be even easier if, instead of having to do several steps, the freed-ora-freedom package: i) replaces *-firmware with itself (like a metapackage); just like the way the new freed-ora-freedom-2-1.rpm replaces the old freed-ora rpm. ii) installs "automagically" kernel-libre; this way, a single line like: # yum localinstall http://ur1.ca/2hooog could do all the work at this moment, i have a single line than serves as a concept test: # rpm -i http://ur1.ca/2ho{og,pm} && yum install kernel-libre What do you think? :) -- Jesús E. Franco Mtz. http://identi.ca/tzk http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tezcatl Fedora Ambassador and translator _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre
