[Server-devel] debuginfo repositories for testing not valid

[Bryan Berry]

fyi,

There are two repos in the testing.repo that are not valid

[fedora-debuginfo-testing]

[updates-debuginfo-testing]




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Re: [Server-devel] reinstall to 164 or possible to upgrade 163?

[Bryan Berry]

nevermind just figured it out

On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 11:57 +0545, Bryan Berry wrote:
> I'm a n00b at fedora, how do I tell yum to point to testing instead of
> stable? don't see a directive in 'man yum.conf' to change the repo.
> 
> sorry for the trouble
> On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 16:36 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > David and I set up a testbed XS using 163 yesterday. Just after setting
> > > it up I discovered 164 has been releases. Is there a way to upgrade 163
> > > or would we be best to install from scratch?
> > 
> > Either reinstall, or can point the server to the 'testing'
> > repositories (edit the yum configuration) and perform a yum update.
> > 
> > cheers,
> > 
> > 
> > m
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Re: [Server-devel] reinstall to 164 or possible to upgrade 163?

[Bryan Berry]

I'm a n00b at fedora, how do I tell yum to point to testing instead of
stable? don't see a directive in 'man yum.conf' to change the repo.

sorry for the trouble
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 16:36 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > David and I set up a testbed XS using 163 yesterday. Just after setting
> > it up I discovered 164 has been releases. Is there a way to upgrade 163
> > or would we be best to install from scratch?
> 
> Either reinstall, or can point the server to the 'testing'
> repositories (edit the yum configuration) and perform a yum update.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> 
> m
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[Server-devel] [PATCH] named: Fix syntax errors

[Martin Langhoff]

Fix stupid named zone file syntax errors. Comments
start with semicolons, and CNAMEs are CNAME, not C,
even if 'address' is A.

My score in BIND administration 101 course: F
---
 fsroot.olpc.img/var/named/school.internal.zone.db |   12 ++--
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fsroot.olpc.img/var/named/school.internal.zone.db 
b/fsroot.olpc.img/var/named/school.internal.zone.db
index 6aec6d3..1979f6b 100644
--- a/fsroot.olpc.img/var/named/school.internal.zone.db
+++ b/fsroot.olpc.img/var/named/school.internal.zone.db
@@ -22,12 +22,12 @@ library IN  A   172.18.0.1
 conference.schoolserverIN  A   172.18.0.1
 
 
-# translations of school - in plain latin script
-# or un punycode of the utf-8 representation
+; translations of school - in plain latin script
+; or un punycode of the utf-8 representation
 
-# es - escuela
-escuela IN  C   school
+; es - escuela
+escuela IN  CNAME   school
 
-# de - schule
-schule  IN  C   school
+; de - schule
+schule  IN  CNAME   school
 
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Re: [Server-devel] reinstall to 164 or possible to upgrade 163?

[Martin Langhoff]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David and I set up a testbed XS using 163 yesterday. Just after setting
> it up I discovered 164 has been releases. Is there a way to upgrade 163
> or would we be best to install from scratch?

Either reinstall, or can point the server to the 'testing'
repositories (edit the yum configuration) and perform a yum update.

cheers,


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[Server-devel] reinstall to 164 or possible to upgrade 163?

[Bryan Berry]

Martin,

David and I set up a testbed XS using 163 yesterday. Just after setting
it up I discovered 164 has been releases. Is there a way to upgrade 163
or would we be best to install from scratch?

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Re: [Server-devel] schoolnet activities?

[Martin Langhoff]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Also, have we sugarized Firefox 3?

There is an unofficial sugarised FF, courtesy of Scott
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities

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Re: [Server-devel] schoolnet activities?

[Bryan Berry]

Bernie, 

Have we configured Browse to display the Flash activities automatically?

Also, have we sugarized Firefox 3?

David, you can install firefox 3 as an rpm however we haven't completed
sugarizing it. Currently we are launching it from the command line. We
will sugarize it as we are using for the next generation of E-Paath
activities.

Also, check out our E-Library that we have developed
http://pustakalaya.olenepal.org  all built w/ open-source components and
and can scale to millions of objects. May be of interest to you.

On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 15:03 +1100, David Leeming wrote:
> You can configure the XO so it loads the SWF files rather showing a
> blank screen or just use firefox 3
> 
> Can you let me know how to configure it, and install firefox 3? 
> 
> 
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[Server-devel] Upgrade server on the XS -

[Martin Langhoff]

Hi Scott,

I'm looking at the 'upgrade-server' project, considering packaging it
for the XS. After a read of the sources, I see that it does extend the
rsync protocol a bit, but the commands seem to not be needed for
updates: server is an rsync cmd, but clean and install are not, but I
don't expect valid clients issuing clean or install cmds.

On the XS installs in the field, it makes sense for the upgrade-server
code to just serve from images in a directory -- deploying new
versions to that directory is under the control of the NOC mgmt
scripts and might happen overnight, or be delivered on a USB stick. So
what I am wondering is

 - Can we just use rsync over an unpacked jffs2 image? If yes, what
are the path conventions?

 - If there is some other protocol extension I haven't spotted that is
needed, how can we disable the "on demand fetch"?

cheers,



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[Server-devel] Packaging the activation server for the XS

[Martin Langhoff]

Hi Scott,

I am exploring what it will take to package the action lease server
for the XS, and what usage scenarios we can support. So I had an
initial look around act-server, which covers a much wider
functionality than I had in mind.

If we assume for a moment that the lease "management" is done
elsewhere, and that the XS has either a local private key that can
sign leases locally or dole out pre-signed keys (fed to it via a usb
drive), where can I find the scripts perform the handshake with the XO
clients (I am assuming there are 2 - firmware-based and linux-based)?

Can the current firmware on the XO accept leases signed with a local
"delegated" key that is 2 steps removed from the OLPC key?

For the time being, I plan on punting on the harder issues around
network encryption we discussed earlier. Once the network-based lease
server is in place, we can explore a fallback scheme involving
teachers and usb keys for the machines that have soft-bricked
themselves via active or passive kill.

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Re: [Server-devel] schoolnet activities?

[Bryan Berry]

thanks David, I will check those out.

You can configure the XO so it loads the SWF files rather showing a
blank screen or just use firefox 3


On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 10:15 +1100, David Leeming wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Attached is the index page and associated files (put them in a folder
> "images" if the expanded zip does not do that automatically). This is
> from a 
> CD issued UNESCO Bangkok.
> 
> http://www.unescobkk.org/index.php?id=1230
> 
> I have sent Bryan offlist the email address of the UNESCO contact;
> others feel free to ask me. They will mail you the CD. If we ask
> nicely maybe they 
> will rework it in XO-friendly formats!
> 
> It has loads of animations and educational objects and activities, but
> most are in PowerPoint, SWF files that do no load on the XO (the
> screen just 
> stays blank, even though I have installed Flash as per the Restricted
> Formats page - and it works with other flash files) and about 50% of
> them in 
> Java.
> 
> I am still at a dead end as regards Java on the XO. I followed a lead
> on the devel list recently, but still no joy, Java plugin looks as if
> it installs 
> but does not show up in the browser when queried "about:plugins"
> 
> Other stuff we would love to have offline for the XS are
> 
> www.skoool.com (SJ mentioned at the Boston meeting in May, that he was
> talking to them)
> 
> http://www.e-learningforkids.org/
> 
> We have a basic list of links to such sites on the "content page" of
> http://schoolnet.net.sb
> 
> 
> David
> 
> - Original Message - 
> From: "Bryan Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "David Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "server-devel" 
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 2:16 PM
> Subject: schoolnet activities?
> 
> 
> > David, I thought I recalled you mentioning some "schoolnet" learning
> > activities done in Java. Can you point me to them? I would like to
> check
> > them out.
> >
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[Server-devel] OLPC_XS_164 is "xs-0.3-rc" and my short term plans

[Martin Langhoff]

Hi! If you are running or testing earluer versions of the XS image, I
need to ask you to test this one. It will become our 0.3 unless we get
new bug reports against it.

I will be working the next few weeks on

1 - system level admin and tools -
   + PAM SOTP
   + Installation fixups
   + RSSH configuration

2 - user visible tools
+ XO-XS authentication
+ Moodle installation

The other big task is the port to Fedora 9 -- but delayed at the
moment. Help welcome :-)



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Re: [Server-devel] Testing EduBlog

[Greg Smith]

Hi Pablo,

Looks good! Thanks for helping us clarify the final steps before Beta 
and for lining up the beta sites!

I copied in the server list and I'll let Tarun comment on any that he 
can address.

My only comment is that I would like to make it work without login 
needed by students but we can solve that later if its not ready in the 
first pass.

Also for Tarun et al. Pablo is creating a home page with doc on EduBlog 
for the beta: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/EduBlog

If we can easily update browse-new (maybe browse-new2?) to use that as 
its home page it will facilitate making this easy.

Thanks,

Greg S

Pablo Flores wrote:
> I've just done a test sequence on EduBlog and have a lot of comments and
> questions, so let's start step by step...
> 
> *Creating a new blog
> *
> 
>- The login page isn't in spanish
>- I'm not sure how to manage users with EduBlog I think we should
>start a wiki page to start documenting (and discussing it). Volunteers? :-)
>- In the "Adding a new OU blog" form, I can't access the "Manage Remote
>Blogs" button, it takes me to a page that says "Sorry, but you do not
>currently have permissions to do that ([[oublog:manageremoteblogs]]) More
>information about this
> error".
>*
>- It would be better if some options could be hidden, like "Common module
>settings".
> 
> *New blog post*
> 
>- From the moodle interface, I couldn't upload any picture. I could use
>the other interface (
>
> http://edublog.venango.org/test/EduBlog/moodle/mod/oublog/editpost.php?blog=2),
>but with this one I cannot select the blog to post to. *
>- I tried to upload a Write document, but I couldn't from any of the
>interfaces (am I doing right? I tried to upload the file as an image).
> 
> I marked with * the points I find more important.
> 
> I also would like to summarize some points of how the daily work would be.
> Let's see...
> 
>- First of all, the teacher will have to get a user and password for the
>system.
>- The teacher creates a new blog using the interface
>
> http://edublog.venango.org/test/EduBlog/moodle/course/modedit.php?add=oublog&type=&course=2§ion=0&return=0
>- All of her children have to get a user and password.
>- Then, the teacher can propose some work to be done, for which children
>will have to make their posts to the blog. To do so, children will have to
>access to the blog page (the moodle one), and click on "New blog post".
>- As children submit their posts, the teacher will be able to see them in
>the blog page. Children will only see their own posts and the ones already
>approved by the teacher. Question: How can a child know if his post was
>approved?
>- The approved posts will go public, depending on the configuration: If
>there is a remote blog configured (blogspot for instance), they will appear
>there. If it's local only, it will be seen by others, depending on the
>visibility configuration of the blog.
> 
> All agree with this?
> 
> Saludos,
> Pablo Flores
> 
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