Hi, Can you please share your work. Thanks... On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 15:11 -0600, George McCollister wrote: > I've written rules for quite a few gnome packages. I haven't shared > them with anyone yet because they've only been tested on one platform > and I didn't figure anyone would want them. > > I wanted to avoid gnome at all costs but I found myself in difficult > situation. We are significantly upgrading our automation system > hardware platform from an XScale to an Atom. We've fielded may > requests to add a secure local operator console (centralized two > factor authentication) on the normally headless box. The embedded > system serves up the operator interface on https and it is usually > managed off site via a web browser over a private network or locally > from a hardened PC. The new system would need to support optional > display, keyboard and mouse and provide a web browser. > > To avoid gnome and kde I opted to use xfce for a desktop environment. > I added workspace rules for xfce, webkitgtk+ and the Midori > webbrowser. To my disappoint I found that xfce doesn't include a > display manager. Finding that xdm was unsuitable I started to look at > SLiM (http://slim.berlios.de) I couldn't find distros that were > actively using it. I noticed that even most of the xfce distros used > gdm. So, I threw up my hands and decided to create ptxdist rules for > gdm. I under estimated how many supporting packages would be required > to use gdm however I figured that since our new hardware platform had > cheap NAND storage to spare, I may as well finish what I started (I > could always elect to dump it for something else). > > So anyway... I got gdm working and added a large number of gnome > packages in the process. I think quite a lot of work would still need > to be done to get all of this to the quality level required to add in > to ptxdist. Even if the quality level was sufficient it might add too > much of a maintenance burden to be accepted. > > If you or anyone else would like to experiment with what I have, let > me know. I'm often in irc. Below is a listing of my package repository > to give you an idea of which packages I've added and of their size. > Note that I have quite a few additional large packages installed such > as Pidgin, full vim, wireshark with GUI which are just for testing and > development purposes. I'm actually running ptxdist on my laptop now to > get some testing in! So far I'm VERY happy with gdm, xfce and Midori. > > Regards, > George McCollister > > 4.0K alarmsounds_1.0-1_i386.ipk > 280K alsa-lib_1.0.23-1_i386.ipk > 144K alsa-utils_1.0.22-1_i386.ipk > 480K apache2_2.2.17-4_i386.ipk > 40K atk_1.28.0-1_i386.ipk > 68K audiofile_0.2.7-1_i386.ipk > 320K bash_3.2.48-1_i386.ipk > 216K busybox_1.17.1-3_i386.ipk > 32K bzip2_1.0.5-1_i386.ipk > 236K cairo_1.8.10-1_i386.ipk > 28K c-ares_1.7.0-1_i386.ipk > 96K consolekit_0.4.1-1_i386.ipk > 16K cracklib_2.8.18-1_i386.ipk > 48K cyrus-sasl_2.1.23-1_i386.ipk > 300K dbus_1.4.0-1_i386.ipk > 60K dbus-glib_0.88-1_i386.ipk > 8.0K devicekit_002-1_i386.ipk > 80K devicekit-power_008-1_i386.ipk > 196K dhcp_4.1.1-1_i386.ipk > 188K e2fsprogs_1.41.12-1_i386.ipk > 100K eggdbus_0.6-1_i386.ipk > 152K enchant_1.6.0-1_i386.ipk > 24K esound_0.2.41-1_i386.ipk > 8.0K eventlog_0.2.7-1_i386.ipk > 396K evince_2.28.2-1_i386.ipk > 196K exo_0.3.107-3_i386.ipk > 68K expat_2.0.1-1_i386.ipk > 168K faad2_2.7-1_i386.ipk > 24K fcgi_2.4.0-1_i386.ipk > 28K figlet_222-1_i386.ipk > 4.0K flex_2.5.35-1_i386.ipk > 20K flot_0.6-1_i386.ipk > 112K fontconfig_2.6.0-1_i386.ipk > 276K freetype_2.3.11-1_i386.ipk > 80K galculator_1.3.4-1_i386.ipk > 356K gcclibs_4.4.0-1_i386.ipk > 220K gconf_2.26.2-1_i386.ipk > 60K gdbserver_7.0.1-1_i386.ipk > 664K gdm_2.28.2-3_i386.ipk > 8.0K gettrenddata_0.2-1_i386.ipk > 768K glib_2.24.1-1_i386.ipk > 1012K glibc_2.9-1_i386.ipk > 72K gnome-desktop_2.28.2-1_i386.ipk > 3.6M gnome-icon-theme_2.28.0-1_i386.ipk > 596K gnome-keyring_2.28.2-1_i386.ipk > 44K gnome-menus_2.28.0-1_i386.ipk > 348K gnome-mime-data_2.18.0-1_i386.ipk > 1.5M gnome-panel_2.28.0-1_i386.ipk > 196K gnome-session_2.28.0-1_i386.ipk > 340K gnome-settings-daemon_2.28.2-1_i386.ipk > 168K gnome-vfs_2.24.4-1_i386.ipk > 320K gnupg_2.0.15-1_i386.ipk > 308K gnutls_2.10.3-1_i386.ipk > 128K grub_0.97-1_i386.ipk > 2.7M gst-ffmpeg_0.10.11-2_i386.ipk > 232K gst-plugins-bad_0.10.19-4_i386.ipk > 808K gst-plugins-base_0.10.29-4_i386.ipk > 816K gst-plugins-good_0.10.23-3_i386.ipk > 408K gstreamer_0.10.29-1_i386.ipk > 2.0M gtk_2.18.7-1_i386.ipk > 36K gtk2-engines_2.2.0-1_i386.ipk > 44K gtk-engine-experience_0.10.5-1_i386.ipk > 28K gtk-xfce-engine_2.6.0-1_i386.ipk > 20K hexedit_1.2.12-1_i386.ipk > 4.0K hicolor-icon-theme_0.12-1_i386.ipk > 6.5M icu4c_4.3.4-1_i386.ipk > 4.0K idsh_0.1-1_i386.ipk > 156K initng_0.6.10.2-1_i386.ipk > 44K initng-ifiles_0.1.3-3_i386.ipk > 88K ipkg_0.99.163-1_i386.ipk > 4.0K iproute2_2.6.34-1_i386.ipk > 204K iptables_1.4.8-1_i386.ipk > 156K iso-codes_3.10.3-1_i386.ipk > 8.0K jplayer_1.1.1-1_i386.ipk > 24K jquery_1.3.2.min-1_i386.ipk > 3.3M kernel_2.6.33.7-3_i386.ipk > 18M kernel-modules_2.6.33.7-3_i386.ipk > 476K krb5_1.7-1_i386.ipk > 124K ldb_0.9.10-1_i386.ipk > 116K libarchive_2.8.4-1_i386.ipk > 56K libart-lgpl_2.3.21-1_i386.ipk > 28K libassuan_2.0.0-1_i386.ipk > 164K libbonobo_2.24.3-1_i386.ipk > 172K libbonoboui_2.24.4-1_i386.ipk > 8.0K libcanberra_0.11-1_i386.ipk > 124K libcurl_7.21.0-1_i386.ipk > 40K libdrm_2.4.23-1_i386.ipk > 20K libdrm-psb_2.3.0-1_i386.ipk > 244K libevent_2.0.10-1_i386.ipk > 240K libgcrypt_1.4.5-1_i386.ipk > 12K libgdbus_0.2-1_i386.ipk > 40K libglade_2.6.2-1_i386.ipk > 128K libgmp_4.2.4-1_i386.ipk > 40K libgnome_2.28.0-1_i386.ipk > 92K libgnomecanvas_2.26.0-1_i386.ipk > 104K libgnomekbd_2.28.2-1_i386.ipk > 228K libgnomeui_2.24.4-1_i386.ipk > 8.0K libgpg-error_1.7-1_i386.ipk > 44K libgweather_2.28.0-1_i386.ipk > 72K libidl_0.8.14-1_i386.ipk > 116K libjpeg_8a-1_i386.ipk > 96K libksba_1.0.7-1_i386.ipk > 56K liblzo_2.03-1_i386.ipk > 16K libmd_0.3.1-1_i386.ipk > 24K libmemcache_1.4.0.rc2-1_i386.ipk > 60K libmemcached_0.44-1_i386.ipk > 128K libnl_1.1-1_i386.ipk > 12K libogg_1.1.4-1_i386.ipk > 136K liboil_0.3.16-1_i386.ipk > 96K libpcap_1.1.1-1_i386.ipk > 16K libpciaccess_0.12.0-1_i386.ipk > 56K libpcre_8.00-1_i386.ipk > 76K libpng_1.2.44-1_i386.ipk > 24K libpopt_1.15-1_i386.ipk > 104K librsvg_2.26.3-1_i386.ipk > 20K 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36K xorg-lib-xpm_3.5.9-1_i386.ipk > 16K xorg-lib-xrandr_1.3.1-1_i386.ipk > 16K xorg-lib-xrender_0.9.6-1_i386.ipk > 4.0K xorg-lib-xres_1.0.5-1_i386.ipk > 8.0K xorg-lib-xscrnsaver_1.2.1-1_i386.ipk > 168K xorg-lib-xt_1.0.9-1_i386.ipk > 8.0K xorg-lib-xv_1.0.6-1_i386.ipk > 12K xorg-lib-xvmc_1.0.6-1_i386.ipk > 8.0K xorg-lib-xxf86vm_1.1.1-1_i386.ipk > 1.4M xorg-server_1.9.3-3_i386.ipk > 1.2M xpsb_0.1.0-1_i386.ipk > 144K xterm_267-1_i386.ipk > 236K yui_2.5.2r2-1_i386.ipk > 48K zlib_1.2.5-1_i386.ipk > > > On 01/31/2011 02:37 AM, Robert Schwebel wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:13:15AM +0530, vijay singh wrote: > > > > > Can any one tell me which ptxdist version have Gnome package available > > > > > ptxdist is for embedded systems, not for full-blown desktops, which is > > why nobody has ported the whole gnome packages yet. However, gtk is > > there. > > > > rsc > > >
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