On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:29:04 +0000, David Greaves wrote:
On 11/02/12 14:38, Nicola De Filippo wrote:
Hi,
I would like to switch to opensuse 12.1 and I'm considering some
things to
avoid having to go back and do n! (for n > 1) installations. I have
seen here
http://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Image_Creation#Installation_Requirements
that is missing because no one has tried opensuse 12.1, or are
there
problems?
As far as I know there are a lot of changes between 11.4 and 12.1 in
package grouping etc.
So maybe this information got lost somewhere.
The simple answer is that if anyone has tried then they've not
updated the wiki.
There should be no problems in principle.
However, the bigger picture is that we're actually moving to a Mer
platform SDK.
This is essentialy a downloadable rootfs that will operate as a Mer
VM. It will
include all the appropriate tools such as mic and osc and will be
able to
install more.
http://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Platform_SDK
There are pros and cons to this approach but frankly the biggest
benefit is that
it should work on all distros (and even as VMs on non-linux) whilst
only
requiring our very limited resources to manage packaging and QA on
the single
target.
Eventually people may want to package some of the Mer tools for other
distros on
the c.obs and that would be fine.
If we get some advice we will provide this in Balsam Professional 12.1.
No problem.
So maybe David you can help us a little bit to provide a repo including
everything as rpm.
As soon as we know how to build everything we are able to maintain this
stuff in wiki. I know who maintains this stuff today.
David
Stefan
